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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Professionals meaning child psychologists, child development experts, pediatricians, teachers. Not just fellow parent-quacks like me.

I am quite strict about screen use for my 5yo. 20-30 min after each meal and that’s it, other than FaceTime. As she gets older I’ll probably relax enough to allow a movie or two each weekend in the company of family or friends.

I also rarely use my phone in front of her, and when I do I explain what I’m doing (ordering dinner, texting her dad a grocery list).

DH goes along with this but also thinks I’m slightly cuckoo since just about everyone else we know is fairly laissez faire (other than two close friends who do similarly). Everyone else pays lip service (I wish he would stop playing so many video games!) but they’ve thrown up their hands.

At what point should I loosen the apron strings? I just want DD to live a full life, and I feel that the addictiveness of screens takes away from that life. I do practice what I preach and don’t use my phone excessively.[/quote]

After each meal, so 1.5 hr a day? That’s not super strict [/quote]

Agree. My kids did not have anywhere close to this much at that age. Now they are 10 (girl) and 12 (boy) and it is unlimited. They have busy sports schedules and can go a week without TV naturally, but they also may watch 3-4 movies over a rainy weekend. It varies. Neither has their own device and we don’t have a video game console. They use the computer a lot for school at this point and the 12 year old looks up sports news on the computer most mornings. I think it is a mistake for little kids to have a guaranteed TV time every day at a certain time. OP’s kid has it 3 times. That’s crazy to me![/quote]

Your house sounds similar to mine. I agree 1.5 hours seems like a lot. I also wonder for all the parents saying their kids are allowed a lot of screen time, but are also doing so many other things: when your child has downtime, is their default to fill the time with a screen? Plenty of kids will keep busy happily if they have an organized activity, or if parent is directly engaging them in something. But the minute no one is there to occupy the time, is their go-to an iPad?[/quote]

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