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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every educated parent on here agrees that screen use must be limited, although I will note my friend who has no limits has the best regulated kids re screens. They just don’t care. It’s always been available so they don’t do it much. Nobody else agrees that the plane is the time to limit screens.[/quote]

I largely agree with you EXCEPT I think this is kid dependent. And depends on age. I have one kid who went through a phase where we had to limit screens even on planes because she just could not handle screens in a healthy way. If you gave her a screen she never wanted to turn it off. I would have been reluctant to give her a screen on a plane because she would have freaked out when I took it away for landing. It was the same at home. We had to go pretty close to screen free for her. Eventually we offered screens again but with fairly strict rules (one show and then we turn it off and only some shows were allowed -- we avoided shows that are designed to be addictive with a lot of repetition etc.).

Now this kid is fine and is actually the least screen-interested kid I know. She basically never asks for them and never has any issue when we say it's time to turn it off even when it's the middle of a show. On planes she'll use an iPad but usually only for 60-90 minutes tops -- she'll self-regulate and give it back when it's done. She likes to read and play games and talk. But we only got to this point by basically keeping her almost entirely screen free for almost 2 years. It would not have been worth it to make an exception for planes.[/quote]

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