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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um... no? No age or milestone, per se. Because we weren't/aren't doing it so that our kid will "be ahead" or anything. And on the flipside, we felt no need for us, *as adults/parents*, to "introduce" it. To keep her occupied? To teach her things she'd probably learn better some other way (especially when younger)? To share a favorite movie? Eh, there are other things we share, for now.

So our kid got, or is getting, screen access very organically, when it's necessary and helpful on balance. Which means she is still pretty much screen free at 7, in terms of what most people who call it screen time would actually deem screen time to be meted out or whatever.

In other words-- when she started K, the school introduced screens to an extent. Fine. Rarely, she might help me online-shop for something because it's relevant. We went to a movie screening for a film her dad was in. I mean, obviously. We go to a museum and they have screen media in the exhibits. Great. Skype/Zoom has always been fine with me-- it's just a video phone call. Etc.

The only time setting a strict age makes sense to me, regardless of overall philosophy, is about 18 months, because their brains really don't process screen information well at all before then. And certainly as very young babies, TV/etc. triggers a loop in their orienting response-- that is, they essentially can't look away when they're overstimulated.

But otherwise, I don't see much point in setting a hard and fast age in any direction. Or milestone... except that certainly, it's probably easier to deal with screens past the tantrum/etc. age. Like 4-ish, I guess.[/quote]

To add to this-- we did originally set a vague "goal" of 2 years old, which was the AAP recommendation at the time. But as 2 rolled around, we said, well, let's try 3, because this seems comfortable to us for now. Then 3 rolled around and we were just kind of like, "it ain't broke, so why fix it?" Which is not to say it's all "easy" per se, but it didn't hold that much appeal. And by the time she was past the need to fill up these hours at home/tantrum/power struggle age (i.e., once she had started K), it had just firmly entrenched itself in our lifestyle.[/quote]

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