Screen time?

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How much screen time do you allow your kids?

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It really depends at our house. I try not to keep a same screen time schedule so my son doesn’t expect it, but I would say a total of 2 hours a day. If I know he’s going to be at my MIL house who is working from home and graciously watches our son, I usually don’t allow a lot because I know she will have him watch something while she works. Our son doesnt have a tablet or anything but he does watch my moms iPad when she’s there, it’s just kinda their thing. You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes 🤷🏻‍♀️ some days my son will have a movie marathon and I don’t feel bad because they are so few and far in between and they are tiny humans who sometimes want a lazy day too!

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We don't have a limit. I feel good about it, honestly she has learned so much from watching tv! So many letters and numbers from Sesame Street, and lots of useful things from Daniel Tiger. Literally she watched an episode of Daniel Tiger enough times that she learned how to draw people, because Daniel draws a picture of his family. Like seriously overnight one day she had no clue how to draw a person at all and the next day she was drawing faces and then arms and legs. 
I work full time from home and we have a 9.5 month old too so we do have a bit of a tv-babysitter thing, but we're picky about what she watches. We watch hardly any Disney movies because they have often a lot of violence or peril (think Incredibles with fight scenes or all the panic and drama in Finding Nemo), so it's a lot of the same episodes of stuff like Daniel Tiger, Puffin Rock, Sesame Street, Molly of Denali, Clifford, etc over and over again. 
My daughter also has an old iPhone with kid apps and she's great at using it. I love looking at the pictures and videos she takes and she uses it to do FaceTime calls with my sister (who also has little kids) and my mom. She's also shockingly good at playing Animal Crossing. 
I admit that I do think sometimes the kids get overstimulated and hyper from too much tv or screen time, so we just turn it off for a while if that happens and they always go back to normal.

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Most days it's an hour, no schedule for it, just at some point she usually watches an hour comprised of doc McStuffins, cocomelon, Mickey mouse clubhouse, or puppy pals. Sometimes we do super educational like leap frog or blippi videos. 
On rough or sick days we obviously do more though and will tend to lean towards movies on those days. She doesn't use a tablet unless we are doing long car rides 1+hours and then she plays games that we downloaded for her on offline mode so no browsing.

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Hmm well we don’t really do screen time during the week - only because our days are pretty packed with school and work (and meal, bath routines). But on the weekends, it’s a free-for-all. My son actually wakes up and goes “Is it a school day?” And on Saturday after we say no, he responds, “It’s a TV DAY!!!” and gets so excited 😳 On the weekends, he typically gets to watch a few shows OR/AND a movie. I have no mom guilt with it 🤷🏽‍♀️ My son is smart, creative, verbally advanced, and active. TV is a tool and awesome haha

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I don’t have a limit. I have a 15 month old then my 3 year old and I work 3 days a week, 9 hour days and if they didn’t have any screen time I would get NOTHING done when I was home. They are high energy kids and I actually find that tv gets them to just calm down and relax for a little bit. My 3 year old has learned a ton from it too, I know stuff is so much more educational now than when we were kids. They get to go outside a lot and we definitely keep them busy so I think they have a good balance

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We do about 30 min after breakfast, he gets an hour on his tablet doing ABC Mouse and then another half hour while I make dinner.  On Fridays he gets to pick a movie to watch with popcorn. We also do 2 small episodes of Dr. Binocs every night before bed. (He loves this show)  We talk about what we learned from it after and then he goes to bed. So around 2.5 hrs typically except for Fridays.  When my mil is watching them or my husband, I can tell when theyve watched a lot of tv. Hyper as all hell when I get home and takes forever to go to bed.  So I try and avoid that and get a lot of outside time and activities in during the day.

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None. She doesn’t ask for it and we don’t watch TV during the day time at all, my husband and I sometimes watch a movie or series in the evening. 
Lately I sometimes used YouTube clips or parts of animal documentations to show her how the animals really look like or what fun noises they make, but she rather listens to audio books or Spotify (which I use if I need some time for my newborn or if I am very tired in the mornings and need a few minutes extra sleep)
She is full of imagination and we enjoy being outside playing with other kids on the playground.

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One hour in the morning and one in the afternoon. Two when I'm exhausted - I have a newborn and sometimes we hit nights I get very little sleep.
She doesn't take all of it though. If I can get her to be enthusiastic about something, she will completely forget about the screen. She usually skips the afternoon TV time in favor of playing outside, and if I can muster up the patience to keep her involved with cooking she'll entirely skip the morning too.
Also, we curate the shows she can watch. There is no TV channels browsing and nothing with ads. I very rarely switch on something for her on my own, it's usually her asking for a specific film or series. Whenever we feel like it's becoming stale, we pick up something new, like Bing bunny or Simon super rabbit lately. (Well, new for us anyway.)

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