Anonymous
Post 01/10/2015 09:26     Subject: Re:screen time and grandma
Anonymous wrote:Kids don't like doing the same thing all the time anyway. TV is good when you need a break, but that seems overboard. It overstimulates them and then they have a tantrum. Maybe grandma is trying to prevent 2 year old behavior. Just suggest doing other things-reading a book, going to the bathroom, going for a walk, playing with a toy, all day long at regular intervals. It would bother me. I'm afraid grandma is not that into your kid if that's all she can come up with to do. Either that or maybe that's all she does anyway or doesn't feel well and isn't up to anything more.

WTF??
TV causes tantrums?
Again I say, WTF is going on at your house and what are your kids watching the Svengali channel???
"Kid you will now have a tantrum, stomp your feet and scream at the top of your lungs, d o it now!!"
WTF
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2015 09:23     Subject: screen time and grandma
Anonymous wrote:Why can't these grandparents play with the kids?? They raised children who were not in front of tvs and iPads all the time. Play a game, read a book, do an art project or even just color with crayons or glue stuff.

You answered your own question.
Grandparents have BTDT and they are tired, and as veterans of the game they know a few days of constant TV will not ruin your kid.
It may bore him to death, but it will not rot his brain.
Let it go Elssa!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2015 00:58     Subject: screen time and grandma
Grandparents are allowed to be indulgent (unless they're custodial grandparents, in which case they have to act like parents.)

What happens at Grandma's stays at Grandma's.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2014 11:38     Subject: Re:screen time and grandma
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kids don't like doing the same thing all the time anyway. TV is good when you need a break, but that seems overboard. It overstimulates them and then they have a tantrum. Maybe grandma is trying to prevent 2 year old behavior. Just suggest doing other things-reading a book, going to the bathroom, going for a walk, playing with a toy, all day long at regular intervals. It would bother me. I'm afraid grandma is not that into your kid if that's all she can come up with to do. Either that or maybe that's all she does anyway or doesn't feel well and isn't up to anything more.


Going to the bathroom as an activity?


LOL! I'd be much more concerned if Grandma came up with going to the bathroom as a fun activity than if she just had them watch tv.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 23:17     Subject: Re:screen time and grandma
Anonymous wrote:Kids don't like doing the same thing all the time anyway. TV is good when you need a break, but that seems overboard. It overstimulates them and then they have a tantrum. Maybe grandma is trying to prevent 2 year old behavior. Just suggest doing other things-reading a book, going to the bathroom, going for a walk, playing with a toy, all day long at regular intervals. It would bother me. I'm afraid grandma is not that into your kid if that's all she can come up with to do. Either that or maybe that's all she does anyway or doesn't feel well and isn't up to anything more.


Going to the bathroom as an activity?
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 23:11     Subject: Re:screen time and grandma
Kids don't like doing the same thing all the time anyway. TV is good when you need a break, but that seems overboard. It overstimulates them and then they have a tantrum. Maybe grandma is trying to prevent 2 year old behavior. Just suggest doing other things-reading a book, going to the bathroom, going for a walk, playing with a toy, all day long at regular intervals. It would bother me. I'm afraid grandma is not that into your kid if that's all she can come up with to do. Either that or maybe that's all she does anyway or doesn't feel well and isn't up to anything more.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 22:24     Subject: Re:screen time and grandma
Ugh my parents are completely the opposite. The minute the tv is on for the kids they bitch, but they will watch endless hours of Fox News in front of them and not play with them for very long.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 22:18     Subject: screen time and grandma
Anonymous wrote:Why can't these grandparents play with the kids?? They raised children who were not in front of tvs and iPads all the time. Play a game, read a book, do an art project or even just color with crayons or glue stuff.


Um, because they are older than they were when they were raising kids? My parents are in their 70s, they can play games with the 7-year old and read a book with the 3-year old, but once the kids are ready to move on, they don't have the energy to deal with them for extended periods of time. They do the best they can, but then they need a break.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 22:07     Subject: screen time and grandma
Let it go
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 21:31     Subject: screen time and grandma
Anonymous wrote:Thats all my mil does w my two year old - let him watch tv or play the phone. Just tell me to let it go, right? His brain won't melt over a week's vacation?


Wdym it's all she does? Does she put him in front of it and walk away? Does she interact with him about what he's watching?

Screen time is not the devil. It just needs to be the right kind. I bet if you encouraged her to engage with him more in particular ways it would be good for them both. Zero to Three has good materials on how to do screen time right. The AAP does not, their advice is not evidence based.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 19:56     Subject: Re:screen time and grandma


TV has been around since what, the 50s? So yes, many of these grandparents did raise their kids on TV.

I'm 55. When I went to my grandmother's house in the 1960s -- we watched TV! Wonderdog, as I recall. I have great memories of those times. Of course, my Grandma also let me OUTSIDE TO PLAY, which this generation of super mommies doesn't get.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2014 17:34     Subject: screen time and grandma
It's the only way my 2yo will sit and snuggle with grandma. I think it's nice. Let it go.