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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I am doing OK with screen time. They get cartoons before school, movies with parents, and a curated video game collection. No Roblox or anything with chat, no tablets, no youtube as its disabled on the tv. If I feel they've played enough I make them turn it off and they do something else.
Even with this liberal policy, my boys (10 and almost 8) get "roasted" for being left out of group chats, roblox, youtube nonsense and so on and are not well included socially. They get along best with the evangelical home school kids in the neighborhood who are similarly sheltered.[/quote]

Can I ask which neighborhood (or maybe even which school?) you/ your son are in? And how old? I am surprised about the inclusion issue because you do have a pretty liberal policy already and I am wondering if we are currently more sheltered somehow. We are in Takoma park (5th grade son goes to piney branch elementary). DS has zero screen during the week, no Roblox, no YouTube, just curated video games (1h max on WE) and movies with family or friends over the WE. And he is absolutely not left out even though some families have more liberal screen policies. He doesn’t know the famous you tubers or memes but it is not a big coolness factor.

I am afraid it will come later in middle school though, when a critical mass of his friends will spend their WE gaming online and he will feel left out[/quote]

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