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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I limit my 4yo and 6yo to one tv show each so they get a total of about 45 min per day. We often have family movie night on Fri and kids may get an extra hour on Sat or Sun. When they were younger, they got no screen time at all. Some of our friends don't limit screen time and their kids seem to always be on some sort of device - tv, ipad, wii, xbox, computer. Every time we see them, they are playing games or watching tv. DH reminds me that we grew up watching tv. I admittedly watched a ton of tv as a child, probably 3 hours per day, more on weekends and breaks.[/quote]

You watched 3hrs of TV a day?  I watched Saturday morning cartoons and that was it.  I was outside all day everyday in my neighborhood playing.  Kids don't do that anymore because it is deemed unsafe.  So eyes glaring into screens is safer.   :roll:   I wish our neighbors would just let their kids outside to play, at least on the weekends.

My 14yr old watches no TV and uses her phone about an hour a day outside of school.  Her school doesn't allow cell phones out of the lockers except after lunch for 10min.  She plays a sport a season and has 3hrs of homework at night.  Any downtime is texting, instagraming, looking at videos.

My 7yr old would watch tv or screens all of the time so she is limited to one 30min TV show and 30min of screen time a day.  She has no screen time before school and none and hour before bed.  She usually has an activity or friends over after school so her screen time is usually while I am getting dinner ready.  On the weekends we are more lax.  We do movie night and we let her on the iPad a lot more.  But for the most part we are out and about and I am always saying "sure you can use the iPad, can you go outback and play with the dog first?"  Then she is usually out there for 30min imaginative play or I go out and play with her.  [/quote]

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