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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousins were 4, 6, 8 and 12 years older than me and my year-younger brother (so we had a much more challenging gap than some are describing), and they played with us nonstop during holiday family visits. Our only downtime would be a movie on cable and they’d go off with their big kid friends in the evenings when we had an earlier bedtime.

I was so disappointed when my brother had kids and they are always on their parents’ phones. These kids are 5 and 7 and can’t even play with toys with their same-age cousins for 10 minutes before they whine for their parents’ phones. It’s gross. Summer visits are the worst- they won’t play outside even if we make it fun, and keep sneaking indoors to slide phones and iPads out of their parents’ bags. I love my cousins all these years later, but my kids barely have a relationship with theirs because of screens.[/quote]

I’ve had a similar experience. I mean, I can’t say for sure if he’d be similar without screens (wanting to do something else instead), but one of my DC’s cousins (months apart) cannot play with her for more than 10-15 minutes without asking for a screen or wandering off and finding one himself. To be fair, he probably has ADHD like his father (and me! runs in our family) but his parents don’t make more than a cursory effort to dissuade him (their effort is what gets him to 15 minutes in the first place). [/quote]

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