I keep hearing how terrible screen time is for young children. The only type of screen time my children have is watching CBBeeies or Nick Junior - i.e. no tabs or computers etc. But I really do feel I need it some of the time - well it helps at least anyway to encourage them just to be calm for a little while which the youngest definately needs now he has dropped naps. They are up from 5am in the morning, and very active, so by about 3pm they normally need some quiet time and calm down time. They are 3 and 5 years so they will watch an hour or so about 3pm (when I normally get dinner prepped) and then often half an hour or so before bedtime. Early morning they will watch half an hour or so. So in total they will watch between 2 and 3 hours a day across the whole day. But in-between all of that they are outside, active and playing. they are very rarely indoors, rain or shine - we go out every day and do lots of activities. I suppose I'm feeling a bit bad as was criticised by sil for the amount of screen time they watch - when actually I didn't think it was too bad at all.
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FuggleFoot · 11/08/2016 15:22
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