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[quote=Anonymous]Does your child choose not to do other activities because they want to use screens? does your child refuse to stop using screens when you tell them to? Is your child cranky when they stop using screens? If they answer to those questions is no then your home rules are fine.

DS has different rules then his friends and that is ok. DS follows his friends rules at their house and his friends follow our rules at our house. No one has ever complained. We very rarely allow DS friends to bring their own devices because screens are not the center of hanging out at our house. If they are playing Minecraft as a group, they open a chat and talk to each other while playing at home because they have bigger screens and it is more comfortable for everyone.

If your kids friends don't want to come over because your rules are too strict, that is on them. I would take it as a sign that the kids family allows too much screen time and that would not excite me as a parent.

Our rules do shift based on situations. There was more screentime over winter break but DS also was going out and playing soccer and doing his martial art and hanging out at friends houses that don't play a ton of video games. He was doing some of the work he needed to do for Scouts (merit badge prep, looking into Eagle project ideas) and some work for school subjects that he is more concerned about (his language mainly). He was doing non-screen related things but more friends were gone and so there was more free time. We allowed more video games. [/quote]

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