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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m noticing an awful lot of defensive people who think screens are mostly necessary and fine. Ask yourselves why you’re being so defensive. Ask yourselves why your kids can’t get through a meal out or a flight or one goddamn day without a screen. It’s unhealthy. And I say this as a person with a problematic relationship with her phone. [/quote]

I'm one of the pps who said moderation is key and noted that my kids play games online with their cousins on the west coast.

FTR, we have never brought screens to a restaurant or on vacation (not even flights). We talk to eachother rather than rely on screens. But my kids do play video games, watch spongebob, etc. [b]I find it interesting how the no screens/minimal screens parents seem to rely on screens as crutches for travel or waiting rooms[/b]. [/quote]

I always find this funny too.  Watching screens during car rides I get.  Giving a kid an iPad while you are in the middle of your own doctors appointment, I get.  But I don’t understand the restaurant/waiting room/plane ride thing.

I like to watch TV and movies with my kids.  DH likes to play video games with them, and they play with each other.  I let them watch TV on their own when I am getting stuff done around the house.  But when we are at a restaurant or on a flight, I literally have nothing else I need to do but play with/read to/talk to my younger kids.  My older kids typically have homework they need to get done during the flight, but if not, then they read or talk.  It just seems like such an odd time to pull out a movie.  Even more so if it’s the ONLY time you ever watch movies.  [/quote]

Do you not watch a movie on a plane when you fly alone? This seems like a weird stance. The movie in the car is what I don't get![/quote]

I don’t watch movies when I fly alone, but [b]I don’t think it’s odd if you do unless that is literally the ONLY time you ever watch movies.  [/b]
And I get movies for kids in the car because the adult has to drive the car, which is kind of a dangerous thing to do, and they need to focus on the road, not a crying three year old.  But on the plane, you are just sitting there with nothing else to do.  Why is this the ONLY time you will let your child watch a movie?[/quote]

Why is it weird if the only time I can sit down and watch a movie start to finish is when I'm on a plane?

In the car you've got the radio/music as loud as you want, and stuff constantly passing outside the window. [/quote]

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