Does your kiddo have a tablet?

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They don’t have their own but they have access to mine if they ask.

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Yes. But we don’t use it often. Mainly for travelling. We drive early 13 hours to see family. She has a speech therapy app and a few shows/movies.

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Yeah he does. It’s an old one of my husbands so it’s not like we bought him a new one. He mostly uses it to watch movies but he’s recently started playing an ABC game on it (identifying and tracing letters). We try to limit it to like 2 hours a day max but some days he gets more, other days he gets none at all. I don’t stress about screen time because me and my husband are both pretty bad about being on our phones/tablets/watching TV so I don’t want to be a hypocrite. It’s not hindering his development at all, he meets and exceeds all of his milestones.

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So I would ask what would it be used for? What other screen time is being had? What other activities are you doing? Is you child making their milestone markers well? Why would you like your child to have one?
I think the pandemic and working for home has caused every parent to go into survival mode figuring out how to do it all and do it without necessarily having a huge tribe around us. There should be no judgment from any parent of any age child on this subject as it has all been so hard and totally new parenting that hasn't been experienced before.
My mom wanted to buy my child one for Christmas we wouldn't let her. We maybe had the TV on for an hour a week. Now I have a newborn and a toddler and TV is definitely something we do more of. Pediatrician even recommended my son watch more not because he needed it but because he thought I did lol. We do more PBS and they have a great new special with preschool material and language and my son loves it.
 
So I wouldn't worry what other families are doing I would honestly just come up with a plan that you like. If you want your kid to have one what is it's purpose? Then go from there. Best wishes.

Does your kiddo have a tablet?

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