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I’ve got two kids (12&9) - I think the main thing is balance, let them have devices but teach them that there are time for devices and times for no devices. If
by ed_elliott_asc 3y ago
I’ve got two kids (12&9) - I think the main thing is balance, let them have devices but teach them that there are time for devices and times for no devices.
If you severely restrict them then they will rebel, if you let them on all the time they will be sucked in.
Keep them well away from social media as much as you can.
Teach them they can brush their teeth or go to the toilet without their phones (you need to live this too and be a good role model)
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoOh and don’t become one of these families who go for dinner and as soon as they sit down get their devices out and don’t talk. Devices and eating don’t mix when it is communal, end of.
- markus_zhang 3y agoSigh, we don't even eat together. I simply don't eat dinner and my wife is too busy to eat dinner before 8. Guess we somehow need to change this when son grows up. Now he is only 2.
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoYou don’t have to eat together every day but make the effort when you can, you can sit with her and have a cup of tea (I don’t often eat dinner either). At a minimum make the time at weekends, it is just a small thing that makes such a massive difference. Could well be a relationship maker or breaker in my experience.