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You give in pretty easily I guess.  We didn't have devices (we had screens because we did watch group movies) for the week of Thanksgiving as well as the week of Christmas.  Somehow our 5 and 7 year olds managed just fine and we had a ton of adult conversation.  Your kids actually probably do need screens to behave now because that's how you've conditioned them.  Mine have managed to sit through dinners out and spend time with family without them.  They're not expected to act like adults but they have a million other things they can do besides play on an iPad.  We have never taken a device out to eat and we eat out a lot.  We have also never allowed them when company is over, but they get them so sparingly otherwise it's not an issue.  You've created the problem and now you have to keep feeding it.  [/quote]

Yes!!!   It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and it is hysterical to me that the people that do this are the ones defending it because of course they NEED the devices !!  My oldest is in her 20s.  I wonder how the hell we survived without them.
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