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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To those claiming a 2 year age difference justifies the screen time, I call BS. I was the oldest of the cousin group and managed to play with my younger cousins (2 and 5 years younger than me) plus we’d play with the neighborhood kids in my grandparents’ neighborhood of all ages. We’d be outside for hours at a time making up all sorts of things to play.

My kids are 2 and 5 with cousins ranging from 4 to 16 and they all managed to interact at Thanksgiving without screens apart from a football game on the big screen after dinner. We are lucky that our teenage nephews are awesome with the little ones and will wrestle around with our boys.

And sure I get the argument that kids need to decompress a little at times, but why can’t they read a book, play legos quietly, or watch a movie as a group? I think it’s totally depressing when kids have their nose in a phone/tablet nonstop.

We have friends who will allow their kids to do this when we go to dinner with our families. Their 3/4 year old will be absorbed in a kid’s tablet completely ignoring my kids (who can sit through a 90 minute meal without a screen because we’ve never allowed it). [/quote]

The only difference between a child reading a book during a visit and the child using a phone or tablet is your attitude. I recall my great aunts chiding my mother for allowing me to quietly read when we visited them. [/quote]

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