Hey Mamas! How much tv time do your kiddos watch? Please be real and honest. Im in a debate with my husband on this

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Feel Free to explain in comments. My husband doesn’t think it’s a big deal 🙄😬 agh I just figured I’d come on here to see what other kiddos my sons age watch. Ty

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whenever she wants tbh, we don’t have dedicated screen time, but there’s always something on the tv or tablet if she wants to watch it.
we find that she watches less screen time if we give her the option to do it, rather than limiting her time which makes her want more screen time.

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Zero yet.  No one in our house really watches tv though.  Occasionally SO and I will watch a movie after our Lo goes to sleep but we’re usually too tired.  I spend up to 10 hours a day outside with the little guy though so that wouldn’t leave much time for tv anyway

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Our daughter goes to daycare 5 days per week, but when she is home on the weekends we always have the TV on. That’s just how our household has always been. She watches it sometimes but would rather play with her toys. I think because it’s always on, it has lost its luster and she doesn’t care about it. She has been really into the Olympics though and will mimic some of what the athletes are doing. We also put music on the TV and she loves to dance. She is a very active girl! I just had my 2nd baby on the 27th and I’m really glad we already have our toddler’s favorite shows established. 😂

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Put less than an hour but it's really none. We are following AAP recommendations. I have found our life quite enriched for not watching it, we have so many other activities we do 😆.

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I can’t get my son to watch tv for the life of me 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’ve tried everything, he just don’t care to watch it and has zero interest

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Our TV is off pretty much the whole day in our house. I think around 18 months, we would let him watch cocomelon wheels on the bus because he was super into buses but it would only be the one song. Now, he gets to watch about 10-15 minutes of his choice after his bath time every night. I will tell him when it’s the last episode and he gets to pick it. I think he’d be fine to keep watching if we left the tv on (only shows he likes) but he doesn’t throw a fit if we turn it off.

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Really depends on the day 🤷🏼‍♀️ longest he’s ever sat and watched something was about 45 minutes and he was out of sorts so we would sit and snuggle. Very few things hold his attention. His daycare does have Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on or some sort of kid show in the mornings and during meals which I don’t love but I know it helps the other kids be patient if they eat faster than younger kids. We don’t restrict tv time, but also don’t put kids shows on for him 🤷🏼‍♀️ However, we don’t allow iPad or phone play, which was something we had to stop my MIL from doing while she watched him some afternoons. We have the tv on in the evenings but he hardly pays attention to it

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We started to let him have screens a few months ago, but it quickly spiraled out of control (particularly when my husband is with him). A week ago I hit my limit. He was whining and crying to either get the remote to watch a show or to get the iPad and play with it. We had an AWFUL day. Like one of those mama-has-to-go-outside-and-scream-on-her-own-for-a-second kind of days. We had a talk about it and went cold turkey off the screens, except to FaceTime his grandparents. Lots of resistance. But two days later he was a different kid. It was worth it.

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I don’t have a set number, just try to limit and use when necessary. I am pregnant and tired now so has been a little more lately. But the good thing is I use it for Greek cartoons, as we are a bilingual household, and that’s pretty much all I let her watch. So it serves a positive purpose.

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Before our second baby was born 10 weeks ago, our toddler had zero daily screen time unless he was absolutely out of sorts and I needed to use the tv out of desperation. Now that I’m juggling him and a newborn, he gets around 1.5 hours cumulatively throughout a day while I’m nursing the baby and need the toddler to be distracted. 
I unfortunately introduced him to Blippi after a Google search of ‘what should my toddler watch?’ and I have SOOOOO many regrets 🤦‍♀️

Hey Mamas! How much tv time do your kiddos watch? Please be real and honest. Im in a debate with my husband on this

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