To ask about school holiday screen time.

[taliopolis]

Do you limit it? Let them run wild and free with it? And by screen time I mean gaming or YouTube.
DC's are 9 and 11. Today they went swimming which took probably 4hrs in total. Then they went to visit MIL for a couple of hours where they mainly watch TV. All the time outside of that has been spent on the PC or Xbox.
Tomorrow, they'll be out of the house 9.30-3.30 at a club. The youngest will likely get up at 7.30 to watch YouTube, then it'll be gaming from 4ish till bed (short break for dinner).
I'm not sure if I should impose limits, or just let it go. There'll be only the odd day when they're inside all day. Most of the time they'll do one activity of the home.
So should I just relax about then relaxing ie gaming every minute they're at home??

i let mine get on with it, we do make time to do other stuff in the day, so when we're home, i don't restrict it.

As i see it, i'm either on the computer, reading my kindle, or watching TV.. so its no different.

You'll probably have loads of replies saying don't limit it.

We have an autistic child who needs more structure. The rule until he was about 11 was no TV before lunch. We combine that with trying to go out somewhere after lunch most days, and itcs enough to ensure he maintains some other interests/activities.

It's all gone to pot a bit now that he's in secondary, has a phone, and there was covid. We do limit phone time with his agreement.

Unless girls (4&7) are at the childminder they usually get an hour in the morning 1-2 after lunch if we're not out and maybe up to an hour before dinner. It's too much really, I try to limit it, but if it's wet and we're stuck indoors it's the reality

We don’t limit it (7 and 9). And actually, they tend to vary their activities - Lego, reading, drawing etc - of their own accord.

Mine are teens so they can do what they like really, so long as they don’t burn the house down while I’m at work!

At your DCs age we’d probably try and go out somewhere most days (only worked evenings then), have friends over it do some sort of activity in the house. They were free to do what they wanted the rest of the time though.

Our only rule is no screens before lunch. I found that my DC just couldn't focus on tasks in the morning if the screen was on (getting dressed, brushing teeth/hair, quick clean up after breakfast, etc). It's a year round rule though, apart from Boxing Day - they know it and just get in doing other things. Same goes for me and DH (i.e. no news on or any other TV in the background in the morning). But apart from that we don't limit, we do enough during the day to break it up naturally, or if we're working they're at nursery/holiday clubs/activities.

I don't limit screens. To be honest though I work most of the time so DS is either at holiday club or with a family member. When I'm not at work we do things as I dislike sitting at home.