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[quote=Anonymous]We are a very limited screen time family. Kids are 2, 3, 5, and 7. Their regular screen time (at home; ODS gets quite a bit at school) is a Kindle book on dad's tablet at bedtime and a movie on Sunday afternoon.

My DH has ADD, and had a major video game addiction; he still plays way too much on his phone. The only thing that worked for him was completely getting rid of the video game equipment.

That's the background. I am hesitant to buy a kid's tablet because I worry that it will quickly devolve into DH playing games all the time with the kids, and then we'll have the screen time/video game problem we've avoided by not having the screens available to the kids, essentially.

But, we have amassed a large collection of children's books on Kindle, and at this point, they can really only be read infrequently, by dad, at bedtime. They represent a not inconsiderate amount of money spent, too, and I hate that we aren't reading them much. Unlike our physical library, we won't even be able to give them away when the kids outgrow them. This expensive lack of use really bothers me.

We're also heading to FL on a 10 hour in a couple of weeks. my 7-year-old reads well, and the 5 and 3 year old can spend lots of time looking at books, too. We take a large bag of books with us when we travel, but with four kids and all of our stuff, there's not that much room to pack toys and books in the van.

Those two things seem to scream out for buying a Kindle Fire (or two) to me.

But I'm really concerned about tablet use creep, particularly because DH has such poor impulse control when it comes to electronics.

Please tell me how to make this work! And tell me that we can reverse it if my fears come to pass and it becomes a huge time suck. I just don't want to end up adding something else we have to manage and argue with the kids about. They are totally fine with/used to our current screen policies.[/quote]

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