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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know how old your kids are, but this is what we did.  Our kids are 2 years apart in age, so if there weren't other kids around, they played together:

PreK:
- Almost no screen time (maybe a movie a month)
- Lots of art supplies, imaginative toys like play kitchens, toy animals/dinosaurs, dollhouse
- Max one structured activity per kid per week

Elementary:
- Limited screen time (a movie once or twice a month, no more than 30 minutes of iPad on weekends)
- Max one structured activity per kid per week

Middle school:
- Covid increased screen time to multiple times a week, with family, and eliminated many structured activities
- Phones in 6th grade, no social media

High school:
- Free reign on screen time and school-based activities
- One social media platform no earlier than second semester of 9th grade

I talked to the younger one, now a HS junior, towards the end of the summer.  She said that sometimes as a kid she missed not knowing the shows the other kids were talking about, but now she thinks that compared to her friends this made her more creative, gave her a longer attention span and the ability to amuse herself, and increased her media literacy.

FWIW, I grew up in the 80s and my parents limited our TV and we were weird even then.[/quote]

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