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Last week was vacation for me, planned a long time ago. I ditched my plans and watched the kids while my wife worked from home, secluded upstairs. When the wea

by stef25 7y ago

Last week was vacation for me, planned a long time ago. I ditched my plans and watched the kids while my wife worked from home, secluded upstairs. When the weather was crap we turned to TV but at the end of the day the kids (and myself) were just zombies. With toddlers it's hard to stop ("No, one more!") and it's hard to get going again after 2 hrs of cartoons. I find it best to do as much as you can without screens and only when you're totally out of ideas or they start getting tired toward the end of the day, you turn to TV to zone out for the rest of the evening.

saalweachter 7y ago
We do "Saturday morning cartoons" (as in, Saturday mornings is the designated time for watching cartoons), and one trick I've found is that switching TV shows every episode or 2 really helps with attitude and the eventual "well, that's enough TV for now". If we binge-watch one cartoon, after three or four episodes we have a cranky toddler who just wants to keep watching that same show all day, but by cycling through different programs we can do cartoons in the morning and then switch to crafts, playing in the yard, etc, without (much of) a fuss afterwards.