Weekends screen time
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Anonymous
| My 10 yr old DS gets 3 hrs per day on weekends to play on the computer. He doesn't get any computer time M-F. How much video game time do you allow your kids on the weekends? He is an only child. He has religious ed for 2 hrs on Saturday and he plays one sport which has practices during the week. He has a tournament once every 6 weeks or so on average. He complains that his friends get unlimited time on weekends which is probably true. He just happens to have friends who don't do any sports or activities. |
Anonymous
| About 1-2 hours per day on the weekend. 30 minutes per day during the week, assuming homework and chores are done (which is effectively half of the time). Kids 7 and 9. |
Anonymous
| My son is 11 and pretty much gets unlimited on weekends. On weekends, he usually has a game and a separate practice, has to practice his instrument, has a First Lego League meeting and usually has homework. He also plays outside with his buddies on our street. So, he doesn't abuse it. |
Anonymous
| None. My kids are 9 and 12. |
Anonymous
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Unlimited. But that's not what he ends up doing much of the time. Especially during weather like this. We are outside. Plus he has a language class one morning and fencing class the next.
Since he seems to have a good balance, I haven't found a need to put limits. |
Anonymous
| OP here. Thanks for the comments. My son would play all day if I let him and I just think it is addictive for him. It is all he wants and anything else just gets in the way of it. Just wondering what other parents had for limits. |
Anonymous
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No limits here for 12 and 10 yo girls. Although sometimes I get fed up with it if they're hibernating with the damn things and make them turn them off. It's arbitrary.
But like other pps, they really don't have time to waste on them during the week, so I try to relax if they want to spend their Saturday mornings entirely online. When I was kid, I did that too -- only the screen I looked at was downstairs in the family room and broadcast Scooby Doo, Smurfs, and Masters of the Universe. |
Anonymous
Why doesn't he have other things to do? |
Anonymous
+1 We don't limit screen time on the weekends, but there are natural limits in place because of other things that are going on. He usually has a game each weekend, so there's a break for that. We have meals together, so there are breaks for those. He has chores (cleaning his room, helping out in the yard, etc.) and homework to do, so he has to take breaks to do that. Add in a visit to see family, having a friend over, or going on a hike as a family, and that will eat up an afternoon too. He probably spends about as much time in front of a screen on the weekends as your son, but we don't have battles about it. |
Anonymous
He does as I explained previously. He has 2 hours of religious ed on the weekend and a tournament for his sport every 4-6 weeks. That takes up half a day on that weekend. He also goes over his friends' houses or vice versa for sleepovers, etc. They will play video games the entire time unless I intervene. We also sometimes go to a movie, a corn maze in the fall, ride bikes on the trail near us, go to the library, etc. But he wakes up at 7am on the weekends and goes to bed at 10pm. He could easily play video games for 8+ hours if he didn't have limits. I'm not willing to bend on the screen time during the week since I don't want him rushing through his homework to get to it. But I also don't want him laying around for 8+ hours on the weekends even if it isn't 8 hours straight. I was just curious what other parents allowed on the weekends. |
Anonymous
| We took away the IPad for a month (punishment for bringing it to bed with him) and wow! It's amazing! No more arguments! We are nearly 2 weeks in - |
Anonymous
Why do you care what other parents do? We're not parenting your child. |
Anonymous
| Why do most people post on DCUMs? They want other people's opinions. That's kind of the point of this site. I only have a handful of friends who are parents and their kids are younger so there aren't many people I can ask about this. |
Anonymous
| We have "unlimited" sort of. Each day the kids have things to do and then it's free--- sometimes it's small things - clean up from sports, put away backpack, or clean up your room or set table or write a thank you note or whatever - once you have done your responsibilities then you are free to do what you want, including screen time. My kids basically do screen time when there is nothing better to do - they would prefer being outside or someone playing with them or have a friend over etc. But when none of that happens, they watch TV, play wii or stare at their phones and text |
Anonymous
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Zero sun-thurs.
40 min on fri and sat. |