To let dc watch loads of TV after school?

[Tatgalore]

The dc get home from school and nursery, have a snack and then pretty much slob out in front of the television all evening.

Eldest does Cubs and plays footie two evenings of the week, we do their reading and spellings and any homework and we all eat together at the table, they have to put all of their things away, help set the table and stuff, but apart from that it's mainly just TV.

In the Summer they play outside but it's cold and wet and dark right now.

I feel a bit guilty as though we should be doing something productive, but they need the downtime right?

My ds is 4.9 and I just let him do whatever when he gets in tbh and that includes tv.Hes so tired when he gets in from school and obviously he hasn't had screen time there so a couple of hours in the evening is fine imo.

I do this too. They’re knackered and it’s pitch dark by the time we get home. Pretty sure they’ll be fine.

Mine have too much TV. It's not all evening (we do reading, dinner, baths and they get slung upstairs to play etc). TV is the easy option though as I have a little one too and evening time can be fraught.

Don't feel too bad as they like a lot of "good" TV. The 6yo always chooses Attenborough or Brian Cox if it's his choice (3yo chooses Peppa fucking Pig though!)

I grew up practically only watching tv after school, especially in winter, apart from maybe a weekly swimming lesson and play dates. Never did me any harm and always did well at school- I think today everyone is overly obsessed with making sure their time is spent productively when I’m sure you learn just as much watching horrible histories as you do making clay models

Mine are the same, apart from homework, dinner and half an hour or so of play, they watch tv until they go to bed. I did the same when I was little.

I grew up watching tv after school too, but those were the days when kids programmes all finished by 5.30pm, although there was neighbours and home and away to watch too.

I've worked with people who ban screens completely during the week.

I let mine do what they want. As long as they've done their homework I don't worry about it.

It depends on the children. Our child has a tutor three times each week straight after school on Monday, Thursday and Friday for an hour each time. Then Monday evening has Scouts, Tuesday swimming Squad Training, Thursday cricket indoor training, followed by Swimming Club where we have to drive him into Birmingham about 14 miles away then back home to swim. Friday after tutor swim stroke technique/water polo/life saving lessons. He also plays cricket on Saturday mornings and does Park Run 2k on Sunday morning as well often asking to swim afterwards or go to a trampolining session. He is a very active child and can not sit still. He enters Aqathlon (swim 200m followed by run 2k) competitions some Sundays too. Wednesday he has no activities and drives us crazy complaining he is bored and he goes into garden and jumps on trampoline or runs around lake (2k) unless raining and even then will want to walks the dog. He has very little down time and watches very little TV but he is 12 an active boy and very sporty. During summer months even more hectic as he plays cricket matches for 2 different teams so as well as training 2 evenings each week playing in cricket match too. He only ever watches TV for about 30 mins at a time in between other activities. He also never games. He occasionally reads a book or plays with Lego but he struggles to sit still for long. I sometimes feel exhausted just driving him around to his activities but he really enjoys them and competes at a high level so as long as he is happy we make the effort for him. Saying this if more than one child much harder as our lives revolve around 1 child.