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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our 4th grade daughter is on a tear about how little screen time she gets vis-a-vis her friends, who she insists get unlimited screen time.

She is currently allowed 2 hours of [i]unstructured[/i] screen time on weekends -- mostly she uses this for Minecraft or Nintendo but sometimes watches Netflix -- and none during school nights. She also gets additional [i]supervised[/i] screen time, such as Friday night family movies, or sometimes we'll sit down together and look up puppy videos on Youtube after homework is done or she'll research something with supervision.

So maybe that's all told 6 hours a week, between unsupervised and supervised screen time, mostly on Friday night and weekends. We are thinking of giving her a couple more hours of free time but not during school nights.

Honest question: how much unstructured screen time do you give your older elementary school child?[/quote]

Honest answer - unlimited, as long as grades are A/Bs. DS is 4th grader, he has a cell phone, chrome book and PS4. He probably is an unusual case, because he kind of monitors his own screen time, ie gets bored after an hour and goes to play something else (legos, outside, etc). Between extracurriculars and friends coming over to play, daily screen time is about 2 hours on weekdays and probably 3-4 hours on weekends. He mostly watches Youtube videos, cartoons and plays Minecraft. Occasionally he will spend a chunk of weekend playing new PS4 game.
Flame away.[/quote]

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