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[quote=Anonymous]These are our rules:

We don’t watch TV during the week. My DD (3.5) gets her tablet for quiet time each day (2 hours), which has a ton of audible books and the Kahn Academy kids app. She can’t get to the Internet.. Every weekend (we try to skip one weekend a month) we do a movie night after dinner. She LOVES movies and it’s fun to watch them with her. At first we watched musicals, like the Music Man, that I remembered as being wholesome. But there’s some dated references in such an old show so we started only letting her watch movies we had recently seen / had read about on Common Sense. From there our filters are: will it scare her? (Nope) is there sexual innuendo (nope) or story lines centering around girls needing boys (no little mermaid in this house for example), sexist or racist remarks? (Hard pass), princesses (meh not unless they are feminists and strong!) gender roles? (Meh) bratty or rude kids (nope - an example of this would be “how to train your dragon”) and then a final gut check of “are we being too lame and should just let her watch?/can we explain whatever made us question it in a way that feels ok? (Then Yes! Examples : spirit (the horse movie... was intense but man she realllly wanted to after seeing it’s picture on Prime. Lots of questions about people not being kind and respecting nature and people who were there first... And we finally said yes to frozen and she looooves it). One of us always watches with her (until she has seen it more than 2x ... ahem ... frozen) and then we  talk about it after. So many questions.

YMMV. My kid would rather watch a movie than a bunch of tv episodes and thinks Daniel tiger is boring. I have friends whose kids love Daniel tiger but can’t sit through movies.

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