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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I totally agree with you that it would be difficult to control screen time when there is a screen in every room (we don't have a single TV ourselves, so I understand). But don't begrudge the parents extra screen time on the weekends. Remember that working parents essentially do your job when there not doing their actual job. So all that downtime you get in the weekends and evenings to relax, do your laundry, cook dinner, do the shopping and errands?  Parents don't get that. If working parents want to out their kid in front of the TV for an hour on a Saturday so they can have an hour to read the paper, which is probably the only hour of real downtime they get all week, it's not comparable to a nanny, who has the kids for the daytime and is being paid to engage them and then gets to go home and have time to herself all evening (assuming he doesn't have kids herself!). [/quote]

I do have my own kids and so no, I do not get that luxury. I have no problem with them having their own downtime, but the kids even told me they get it all day a lot of weekends cause their parents want to do their own thing. So fine, if that is how they want to parent, so be it. But it is the hypocritical message they are sending that bugs me. Do they really need a huge TV in EVERY room?! [/quote]

Hey, I said I agree with the message about a TV in every room. But if you have your own kids, then you understand I hope why you might have more lax rules on the weekend with your own kids than with someone you are paying to engage your kids during the daytime hours.  And most jobs (all jobs?) aren't going to allow you to be watching TV on the job, so it's not like its unfair.

Like I said, we don't even own a TV. I agree that it seems like some parents rely on it way too much. But I think you lose your argument when you argue that if the parents let their kids watch TV all weekend, that its hypocritical that they won't pay someone to plop their kids in front of the TV all week too. [/quote]

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