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[quote=Anonymous]We see our extended cousins only a few times a year for a long visit. Each family handles screens differently. One very limited screens, one free for all, and the others of us are in the middle.

The free for all family kids have individual iPads that they bring to each gathering. When they come and the kids pull out the iPads, it changes the whole dynamic and the board games and Lego building and dress up and other stuff get derailed. The kids who have their own devices start asking for them and those that don't just look over the shoulders of those that do.

The parents all say, "it stinks that they're so addicted to screens," but kind of throw up their hands. Even the free for all family has expressed that they wished they didn't give the kids the devices so young. But no one wants to be the bad guy and set limits.

Any ideas on activities so enticing that the kids will put down the screens on their own? Or non judgmental ways to enforce limits when everyone is all together?[/quote]

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