Screen time?

[Kayyyl]

What's everyone's views? I see some videos of people saying there should be no screen time etc

I always limit we don't do YouTube or iPad, DS is 3.5 he likes paw patrol and we control it etc. Since I had his little sister there was a bit more than prior? But as she's got older it's easier

We want a balance. Don't want to be 0 as then he may seek it out and get addicted because we've banned it and made it a big deal

But get guilt that it's not 0?

We go outdoors all the time he goes to nursery. It's occaisonal and I do try to limit but just get guilt when it's not 0

In our house we like to say everything in moderation. A littler bit of screen time isn’t a huge deal. We have 3 kids. 12, 10 and 9. They have different allowances as they react differently to it.

If one thing will drive you to despair, it is trying to gauge how to manage things like this from other mums and not being guided by yourself and what works for you.

I'm getting the sense you're doing great and I can tell just from your post you are.

Screens will not kill your kids or turn them into a serial killer. Other mums and their judgement and views - which they will happily impose on you - will instead be the problem. It is for many of us on this journey until we start setting our own rules based on our own instincts.

You can observe the kids and you see and decide when it's time to drop screens and get them to do something else. There absolutely is a place for screens a d you'll see when it might be time for something else.

I was a TV zombie in the 80s growing up. I still managed to develop skills in music, playing instruments, connecting in nature, art etc etc. I still love TV too 😀.

You're doing fine. If screens help you and them to chill for a bit, great, why not. If they start acting out after too much screen time, then get them to do something else and put screens away.

There are no rules here. You know them best, their temperament, what suits them and their life and yours. Screens aren't the devil. If they're watching death and violence then that's different but I imagine they aren't. That's for the teen years to stress about 😭😆.