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[quote=Anonymous]With my oldest, I was very good about screens.  I engaged with him, I very consciously helped him learn independent play, and after he turned 2, I let him watch about 10-15min a day- like, one Daniel Tiger storyline as a treat after dinner.  Then when he was 3.5, I gave birth to my twins, and suddenly there was one of me, two infants, and a preschooler who only went to school three days a week for 2.5 hours a day.  My preschooler started getting closer to an hour of screens a day- but still just Daniel Tiger or a similar cartoon, played on the TV (no tablet).  Then covid came, and I was helping my kindergartner navigate virtual kindergarten entirely on a chromebook and I had twin 2 year olds who had the energy level of twin tornados and there were not any preschools that were open for me to send them to to get a break.  And my kindergartner needed me to help him learn to read and write, and my twins were off the chain and we couldn't even go anywhere.  So that's when the tablets came in.  And now it's a habit!  We aren't as bad as the parents some of you are describing but yeah, honestly, those twins are now first graders and they come home from school and want to play mario kart or want to watch the lego movie and that's what they are used to. I don't say yes every day obviously.  But they are NOT good at independent play and they spent a great part of their early years with a mom who was frazzled, teaching kindergarten on a stupid laptop to a crying 6 year old, and begging them to quiet down just for a few minutes and letting them watch Blippi on my phone so my older kid could unmute his stupid laptop and read his sentence aloud to the class or whatever.

Yes this was years ago!  But the habits linger and they become hard to break. That's all I'm saying.  [/quote]

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