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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m noticing an awful lot of defensive people who think screens are mostly necessary and fine. Ask yourselves why you’re being so defensive. Ask yourselves why your kids can’t get through a meal out or a flight or one goddamn day without a screen. It’s unhealthy. And I say this as a person with a problematic relationship with her phone. [/quote]

I'm one of the pps who said moderation is key and noted that my kids play games online with their cousins on the west coast.

FTR, we have never brought screens to a restaurant or on vacation (not even flights). We talk to eachother rather than rely on screens. But my kids do play video games, watch spongebob, etc. [b]I find it interesting how the no screens/minimal screens parents seem to rely on screens as crutches for travel or waiting rooms[/b]. [/quote]

I always find this funny too.  Watching screens during car rides I get.  Giving a kid an iPad while you are in the middle of your own doctors appointment, I get.  But I don’t understand the restaurant/waiting room/plane ride thing.

I like to watch TV and movies with my kids.  DH likes to play video games with them, and they play with each other.  I let them watch TV on their own when I am getting stuff done around the house.  But when we are at a restaurant or on a flight, I literally have nothing else I need to do but play with/read to/talk to my younger kids.  My older kids typically have homework they need to get done during the flight, but if not, then they read or talk.  It just seems like such an odd time to pull out a movie.  Even more so if it’s the ONLY time you ever watch movies.  [/quote]

Do you not watch a movie on a plane when you fly alone? This seems like a weird stance. The movie in the car is what I don't get![/quote]

I don’t understand movies in the car or doctor’s office and thought those were bizarre examples. So the nurse weighs and measures your kid and then you just NEED to whip out an iPad for the 5 minutes you’re waiting for the doctor? The plane ride screen time I totally understand. Passengers tend to dislike when others are even talking as the plane is encouraged to be a quiet zone, and you need to be quiet for hours. You often can’t get up and walk or go to the bathroom often because of the other passengers.  I pack puzzles and books and quiet snacks for my 2 year old, but he often wants to talk to me about the puzzle pieces or pictures in the book and I can see that people around us are often annoyed even though we talk very quietly. I’m totally a quiet introvert and never want to draw attention to myself, but even in my situation when being as unobnoxious as possible, people are annoying about it. It would be easier if my kid could be silently staring at a screen the whole flight. [/quote]

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