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[quote=Anonymous]More screens than I would like.  Mine are in 4th and 7th.  They had 4 weeks of pretty substantive distance learning before this week (spring break).  The 7th grader started his school work at 8:30 and usually was done around 1:00 with a couple small breaks.  He's keeping up with various exercises, strength training, and skill drills for his travel sport and still has a virtual lesson once/week.  Even though that all sounds productive, he would still easily stare at a screen from 2pm to 10pm daily if I let him.  I feel like it's a constant battle everyday to keep that from happening.  I don't care if he spends several hours staring at screens as I realize these are unusual times, but I'm trying to keep his brain engaged and him physically active somewhat.

The 4th grader plays an instrument so he starts practicing that at 8am everyday--he pretty much never practiced at home before this.  Then school work at 8:30.  He has some learning challenges so his school work requires a lot of 1 on 1 attention from me as I'm trying to work.  He has some built-in breaks during the day where he goes outside to shoot some basketball, does his travel soccer "homework," and has a little downtime, but it's not unusual for him to be working on school work until around 3pm.  It's a lot of work and a long day for him, so I try to give him freedom to relax after that, but again would prefer that didn't translate to 6 hours of Switch.

We had a better a schedule going the first couple weeks of distance learning, which cut down on the screen time, and then kind of got away from it. I'm going to try to get them back on it a bit more after spring break.[/quote]

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