Just idle curiosity on my part but I'm interested to know where parents stand on common 'parenting issues', and the ages of your kids! I want to see if prevailing attitudes have changed or if the core approaches stay the same.
I'll share our approach on some points, feel free to add your own approach and also share any other issues you're interested in that I haven't included.
my children are 5 and 2 (almost 3). No SEN that we know of, able-bodied, no medical complexity.
screens: we don't have a tablet and never let them use phones except for FaceTiming. They both watch tv which we are quite relaxed about but we usually only watch together as a shared activity, e.g. we will all watch a film or tv show. On occasion if I need to buy myself some time I'll put something on for them without me joining them. They don't watch any YouTube, just shows on BBC, Disney or Netflix. I'm quite careful about what they're allowed to watch and they can't control the tv themselves so can only watch what I put on.
phones: obviously they're too young at the moment but we have decided they won't have smartphones until they're 16 (we may change our views on this, it's a long way in the future, but that's our current feeling)
food: we eat breakfast and tea together at the table every day, subject to occasional work commitments. As a treat they sometimes get to eat pizza on the sofa with a film. Most of what we eat is cooked from scratch, but we probably let them have more sugar than some parents, we're pretty chilled about cakes / buns etc when we're out and about. We have proper puddings a couple of times a week, otherwise they sometimes have fruit or yoghurt. Always fruit with breakfast and veggies with tea (they can be fussy but have a few veg they will each reliably eat). They never have sweets except at parties (to protect the teeth and choking risk for the younger). They only drink milk or water, we never have squash or juice. They definitely get enough sugar and more from food 😬
bedtime: flexible-ish. We try to get them to bed between 7pm and 8pm most nights but we occasionally have them up later for events like a family dinner. We follow a bedtime routine most nights of bath, story, cuddle, bed.
vaccinations/ medicine: yes to vaccinations, everything they're given on the NHS and paid for chickenpox on top, plus flu annually. Liberal with calpol as needed for pain and fever.
discipline: no hitting (illegal where we live) or shouting. Try to stick to connected consequences. Firm boundaries. Apologise when we lose our cool (but also teach recognition of why adults will lose their cool in the face of children being excessively provocative 😂)
will be interesting to see if/ how much this changes for us as they get older!