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[quote=Anonymous]If we had our 3 year old watch a 90 minute block of television every day for two months, in order to resolve a hole in our childcare that we will not be able to address until January, how bad do you think this would be? We usually limit her to 30 minutes of TV, 3 or 4 days a week (though we know she would happily watch more). But we need to get through Nov-Dec without morning childcare. We are shifting around our schedules a bit (we are both WFH) so that we can take turns with her in the morning, but we both have daily staff/project meetings and they are very hard to move, so if we could occupy her some other way for 90 minutes, it would be enormously helpful.

Our thought is we would have her do one episode of Sesame Street followed by 30 minutes of one of her other permitted shows (Daniel Tiger, Bluey, or Doc McStuffins). We know we may still get interrupted to deal with TV issues or something, but we think this will mostly buy us enough time. In January she'll start a private PK program in the mornings.

I know some people get away with no TV time or extremely limited TV time at this age. We have always tried to be judicious about TV time -- we're not anti-TV, but we mostly want her playing and looking at books and being outside. But we have had an unexpected issue come up with childcare and there is not an obvious answer to it until after the holidays.

Are people horrified by this? Will it be impossible to roll her back to more limited screen time if we do this for a couple months? I'm just looking for a gut check.[/quote]

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