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Parents will always lose this type of battle because devices like tablets, phones, and TVs give parents a legitimate break. For every parent who is going “no s
by dangus 3y ago
Parents will always lose this type of battle because devices like tablets, phones, and TVs give parents a legitimate break.
For every parent who is going “no screens until age XYZ” there’s ten others who just need to get something done around the house and have their children leave them alone or stop breaking shit for 10 minutes.
Your strategy is the right one. The parent should be the trusted confidante.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI'd quibble with whether the break is "legitimate" but I wholeheartedly agree here It is unconscionable the pervasiveness to which parents literally stick a device in front of their kids for their own benefit. I get it, life is hard and kids are a lot of work. Your work or friends or instagram or whatever, is infinitely less important than building a healthy engaged relationship with your children. You're harming them and they are losing out on the vanishingly small amount of time you have to give them the focus, attention and attachment that is REQUIRED to create a healthy person and these are things only a parent (or adoptive parent) can give.
- kuchenbecker 3y agoIt's just like anything else you need to teach moderation. My daughter gets to choose what she does on her tablet, and it has educational games. She gets to choose when she watches. I decide how much total screen time, < 1hr per day total, and 50% of the time she will choose to watch something with me after dinner on the big TV rather than use it during snack time.