My days at home with DS are driving me nuts and I worry I'm doing something wrong. His default choice of activity is to watch tv or videos on the ipad.
If we're out for the day it's not a problem and he's a sociable, bright and articulate child, interested in the real world etc and he goes to day nursery 2 days. But, if we're just at home he asks for the ipad or tv and left to it will sit and watch it for ages. He really pays attention and tells me about it later, which I somehow find more acceptable - it's not just on in the background.
My worries are: why does he not prefer to play when other kids I see seem to; am I not providing enough interesting activities for him; he claims to be tired when asking for tv so am I tiring him out on days out and nursery days?
I've always been worried about kids and tv and we kept it to 10 mins before bed until about a year ago. I do find tv useful when I need to do the ironing or cook lunch or whatever, but he asks for it at other times. I actually think a little bit of tv every day is fine and don't want to fill every moment of the day with wholesome activities. It's the fact that it's his default preferred activity and he gets quite 
when I say no.
Some of my friends have the tv on all the time and others hardly let their kids watch it at all, so I know there are many different approaches and not one 'right' way.