AIBU To allow my 3 year old to have a "tv day"?

[Zara85]

We are busy all the time, he goes to nursery 3 full days (7.30am -6pm). Then examples of a typical week for us...
Monday -friends over in the morning/ toddler group afternoon
Tuesday Weds Thurs- nursery
Friday - dance group morning/ meet my mum for lunch and shopping afternoon with the dc
Saturday - out as a family with baby and dh, somewhere like a garden centre or soft play or park, lunch then usually visit friends or family.
Sunday - tv day. Me and dh use this day to clean the house, cook a Sunday dinner, cook meals for in the week. We may take ds for a bike ride for an hour or so or he likes to come food shopping too. But on the whole most of his Sundays he'll just crash on the sofa and watch telly for most of the day! Is this really bad? He's normally whacked by a Sunday but he loves to go out and be busy, so he really enjoys his week days too.
Only on reading mn did I realise that so many don't allow tv at all, or maybe 30 mins a day

All children are different and all families are different. What you do sounds absolutely fine to me! My eldest loved watching TV and learnt a lot from Mr Tumble etc but my 10mo doesn't even look at it, he'd rather play with his toys or be with someone. Children are human just like adults... I'm busy with work and family 90% of the time and love a few hours of binging Netflix when I get the chance so I don't see why we should deny our children some time to switch off as well?

I wouldn't want my own children to have tv for a whole day every week.
Its not that its a terrible thing, the odd whole day if they are under the weather or you are or some other reason is fine. But every Sunday is basically 1/7th of their life.

I do think excess TV can cause children to not learn to get bored and find entertainment and can hinder development in many ways.

Children need a combination of exercise, downtime, outside and inside play, etc every day.

Maybe swap some cleaning to in the week rather than all at the weekend. i know it takes time, but maybe every evening after work you and dh do 20- 30mins together. Thats 60 mins x5 = 5 hrs of stuff that wouldnt need doing at the weekend. Tag team so one of you does laundry, one kitchen or whatever.

At the weekend it might be better to allow a fixed Tv amount say 1 episode sunday morning, and one sunday afternoon, and saturday evening 1 episode. instead of a bulk hours on end one day. Child then learns that they can see something, and then do somethign else.

If 3 year old doesnt like current toys, maybe he needs different types to what he currently has? Garden toys (wrap up and can go outside in winter), drawing and art stuff, maybe construction, puzzles or board games, den building etc. not all children like typical small toy play