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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is he?

I’d try to keep it down to strictly an hour or less. I understand as I SAH w a preschooler (4.5) and toddler (2.5) and need the break sometimes too but 2 hours every day seems excessive. My 2 year old no longer naps (?) so tv time is a time for her to get a little rest too.

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Why can’t your two year old simply have [b]quiet time reading [/b]or playing in her room for an hour? Or a half hour or whatever time works for you. [/quote]

Have you ever met a 2 year old? They do not do this. IME and that of my friends, this kind of independent play starts around 3. [/quote]

My child is 2, almost 3 and he has been doing this consistently every afternoon after lunch. [/quote]

Good for you. Most 2-3 year olds aren’t like that.[/quote]

I feel lucky now. He’s my only kid and I don’t know other kids well, so I didn’t know. If it were ingrained from an early enough age and enforced, do you think many kids that age could spend time alone in their room for a half hour though? Maybe I just lucked out that DS likes counting and sorting things, so just shuffling a bunch of papers around or flipping through a book keeps him quiet during “quiet time.” He absolutely cannot seem to do this during regular play hours and needs to play WITH me. But during “quiet time” he does it himself. [/quote]

I have 2 kids. My older child at age 2 could entertain himself for awhile and didn’t mind playing independently and relatively quietly for 30 minutes or sometimes even an hour at a time. My younger child is 2 almost 3 right now and the complete opposite. She’s very attached to me and extremely clingy...I’d have to lock her in her room to get her to stay there on her own, which obviously I’m not going to do. And even if I did somehow get her to stay in her room on her own without screaming for me, she’d wind up doing at least one of the following: making a huge mess, destroying something in the room, and/or injuring herself somehow. I’ve known a lot of 2-3 year olds over the years and I think my younger child’s destructive and clingy nature is much more typical for this age whereas my older child’s independent and pretty calm, quiet nature was very unusual at that age.[/quote]

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