Let's be honest, how much time does your child spend watching TV per day?

[Anonymous]

Ages 2 and 4. Younger one zero and older one gets a movie a week.

[Anonymous]

I power washed my deck today so 7 hrs for my 10yo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don't think they are all lying but I also think they are not being honest with themselves. These kids have never watched a movie. If they said 20 min a day (of course I don't know any shows that are 20 min) and a movie once a month that would be more honest. I think they would like to think their Kids watch that much tv but I don't really believe them. Nobody's going to fess up to the kid watching Lion King for 90 minutes.

OKay, this is just silly. I posted the longish post on page 1 - we don't do much TV at all, but I think there is some value in TV. I don't get your insistence that all children are watching one show per day. My 3.5 year old might watch one show every 2 weeks. He's actually never seen a movie. It's okay if you don't believe me, I guess, but I can assure you, I'm not lying to you or to myself and I'm really not that invested in your anonymous opinion of me anyway that I'd try to lie, brag, etc. I was just trying to answer your question, because I didn't realize you were going to assume all answers that don't support your theory were lies. Most of the posts here that say they limit TV seem very realistic to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I power washed my deck today so 7 hrs for my 10yo.

I love you.

My kids are 4 and 7. During the week they watch no TV, but that is easy because we are all away all day at school and work. Might do a 1/2 hour of Wii Sports. On the weekend they probably watch 4 hours per day. 2 hours in the morning when they wake up (and I sleep in), then another 2 hours in the late afternoon/early evening after an active day and while I make dinner.

[Anonymous]

One hour while I am making dinner every day, although often this tuns into 1.5 hours, plus an additional hour on Friday "movie nights" plus about 20 minutes iPad screen time, if they've done all their bedtime chores.

If I am sick or need a nap or have to do some major chore, I will put them in front of the TV for 2 hours w/o a second thought.

For the poster who said there was no TV in the house and her DC learned to read b/c s/he was bored, I say -- Please. Save it. My oldest child who LOVES TV and would watch 8 hours a day if I let her taught herself to read and reads four grade levels ahead. We don't control everything about how our kids turn out.