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[quote=Anonymous]OP - so normal!  Our household obsession is SuperWhy but Mickey Mouse is a close second.  And with about 3 minutes of exposure that I'm aware of they also seem to know who Dora, Curious George and Caillou are.  I don't get it.  :-)

I try to limit access and not make it guaranteed.  I don't use it at every meal time or every bedtime or every anything - only intermittently - so they can't establish a pattern.  That helps a lot actually.  And I have a couple of things that I've let them become familiar with - the one TV show, one ipad game, one leapgrog electronic thing that they love.  So any of those can fill the role of buying me a few minutes of peace and seeming like a big treat - but no one thing becomes the established screamed for item.

That has helped a bit.  But mostly I think you just have to balance the big picture with the daily needs.  Kind of like looking at their diet intake over the course of a week, rather than at every individual meal.  (That's a mindset that has helped me calm down a bit about worrying about veggie/fruit/protein balances.  It helps me think about screen time also.)[/quote]

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