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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think at 11-yo you can allow some.

I never understood the families that restrict it m-th and then allow anything goes on the weekends.

Everything in moderation is ALWAYS the best policy when it comes to ANYTHING.

My kids are 7 and 9 and they are very into sports---so between sports and homework there aren't many hours in the evening.  This helps tremendously.  If they finished homework, read for a bit...and had practice--I let them watch an hour or so (often they only have time for 30min).  If it's very close to bedtime-then 'no'.  The nights they just have homework/reading and no sports (if we've gotten some physical activity) they can watch some Tv/play a game on the ipad.

I think too strict is almost as bad as too lenient when it comes to kids.  That's just my personal opinion.
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Also--kids kept on super-duper tight leashes and restrictions tend to go nuts once they are away on their own.  They never learned to manage.[/quote]
I wonder if there's any evidence for this, it's the sort of thing that people throw around.  I was raised in a pretty strict home and was friends with kids raised in very strict homes and we all went to college and continued to be pretty disciplined.  I know it seems easy to believe that we would have all gone wild, but we just didn't.[/quote]

I have anecdotal evidence from my childhood- Catholic girls with super strict parents who went gonzo the second their parents left town and when they left for college.  But you can't cherry pick a couple kids and say one method is better or worse than the other.  [/quote]

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