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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went to breakfast with 5 other friends, organized through the moms club. Every mom but me brought a tablet and immediately put it in front of their child (ages 2-3).

I honestly never occurs to me to do this. I brought some books and quiet toys and my son (18 months) just sat there. I have an older son too and we’ve never used a tablet.

It’s odd to me that this is what kids are like now.[/quote]
OP, how have you achieved this? By just not doing screen time as distraction? I have a 14 month old and I don't want to get in the habit of occupying him with screens either. [/quote]
NP, and we also don't use tablets for distraction. It wasn't a big challenge or anything, we've just never used them that way. I did buy one to use on the airplane while traveling. DD is 4.5, and she has started asking sometimes to use it at other times (right now we have a deal that we'll revisit the question when she's 5)...but it's invariably after she has played with another kid who gets to use one.

I don't think they are bad or good, it's just not what we've done...and I like that it's something different for the airplane. Situations where I've noticed other kids using them are ones where our plan is for her to color.[/quote]

NP, also a screen-free home. Kids are 4 and 1. The 4 year old reads now, but before at restaurants we would bring board books and things for him to flip through himself. We do the same now with the 1 year old. This was important to me because I've seen the impacts of video game addiction on many of my students. Our neighbor is 6 and the parents have a hard time getting him away from TV, iPhone, and video games -- he gets extremely upset when these are taken away. A few years of them needing more attention now is worth it to me because I don't want to deal with endless battles about screentime later on and with all the issues that can bring. As with all parenting, just start the way you mean to continue, and the kids will adapt. I think ages 3-5 can be very hard in terms of kids begging and begging for things like this, so if they already start by looking for other things to do you've won half the battle.[/quote]

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