Is it normal for a 14 year old to want so much screen time?

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He gets a couple of hours in week to game. then he might help with dinner, eat with us, but then wants to pretty much watch TV with us/alone until he goes up to read (under duress) about 9.45. He does sports a few times a week after school.

weekends, he’s up early - watches TV. Some You tube shit. He does sports both days and I will push him to meet friends or go to park, which if the others are willing, happens. Otherwise he wants to hop back on a screen.

Ive tried so hard to present other stuff - and I do organise things for us as a family. And I get him off screen, but it’s a constant battle.

i find it fucking depressing to be honest.

is it normal? Is it a phase?

I try to get ds out for irl interaction and his friends just tend to sit on their phones be that at each other’s houses, in the park etc.

@OneTaupePoster I have no issues with screen time I spend huge amounts of my time in front of one - doesn't bother me, lol.

video games are worse than recipes and newspapers because they don’t impart useful knowledge and are addictive.

Depends on the video game and the newspaper - I doubt many people on MN would argue that reading the Daily Mail was particularly useful

I know I'm fighting a losing battle though as MN hates video games with a fiery passion. Spending hours on a screen on a forum is fine though

Interesting. I wonder if someone has had a name change

You really need to get a life. It’s extremely sad that you care about having a voice on this thread so much that you name change to come back and reinforce your opinions.

🤣 excellent

Sounds normal to me.
At that age my DB and I would happily spend as much of the weekend as we could watching films and going on the NES.

We went on bike rides, read, saw friends, etc too. But always keen to just chill out in front of a screen! I definitely would have been worse with a mobile but teens didn’t have them then.

Well at 14, he's plenty old enough to understand she's working. So I'm not sure why you seem to think her working is going to make him want to be online.

many other more obvious reasons.