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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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. [/quote]

That's not a screen or device problem, it's a discipline problem.  My 8 year old doesn't like TV much, but he does love minecraft.  He can't play during the week, but we are pretty generous with minecraft on weekends - he can play an hour each day, and an hour and a half if he reads for more than an hour in the day.  We measure his time fairly, but when it is up it is up and that's that.  There's no point in him getting upset, because all that causes is the loss of time on a subsequent day.  It's not a battle or an issue and never has been.[/quote]

It's part both.  The added screen time becomes addictive.  I recommend reading on the science of addiction and video games/screen time.  The neural receptors that are affected by drugs, etc. are the same ones that are affected by too much screen time.  It starts off as a discipline problem and ends up an addiction/screen problem.[/quote]

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