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As parents, we do currently put limits (TV, phone games, etc) but I question the validity of the approach all the time. As a kid I had mostly no limits on anyth
by raspasov 5y ago
As parents, we do currently put limits (TV, phone games, etc) but I question the validity of the approach all the time. As a kid I had mostly no limits on anything... Could I have built better discipline with limits? Maybe... Or maybe I would just resent my parents more. It's hard for me to tell from my perspective.
- TchoBeer 5y agoI'm the same way. My parents were very hands off in that respect (more because they were busy than anything else) and I wonder if that's had any negative effects on me, or if I should be more restrictive of my kids.
- watwut 5y agoWe put limits on things, because we have friends who did not had them. We did not liked how the situation developed there, they did not either and then put limits on things. In any case, I did had limits when I was a kid. My parents enforced when I went to sleep. They were proactively sending me outside when I was spending too much time reading. I did homework mostly without issues, but when I started to forget it in one period, there were some limits too. And then there were "natural" limits in term of me having to go to various activities I was signed up to - I could not just skipped. With computer games specifically, there were natural limitations of single computer in family of four where work/studying automatically took precedence from gaming. And plus no kid was allowed to monopolize computer for himself. And parents would kick you out of computer if it was late (it was in their room anyway).
- kuu 5y agoWhen I talked about limits I was not referring to a hard limit with a clock and amount of hours they can spend. Maybe it could be just as simple as teaching importance of things ("you can play videogames once you finish your homework"), this is also a limit.