My 7 year old ds LOVES all things screen related. Minecraft, wii, movies etc. He is very physically fit and active, plays football, kung fu, parkour, surfing etc. He's a brilliant reader and reads to us and independently without nagging. But when are home, he's just desperate to be on some kind of screen. Prior to the summer holidays we'd has a no screen rule during the week and 2 hours each weekend day. It worked really well and he seemed much more level headed, we played games together after school etc.
However I'm very heavily pregnant (due today in fact) and have had a difficult pregnancy for many reasons and have over relied on screens for entertainment over the summer. Now we're back into problematic territory where he's just obsessed and then so narky, nasty, rude and sometimes tearful when we say enough. With a new baby on the way I'm struggling to get my head around how to effectively limit screens when I will also be struggling to have the ability to play with him.
I'm just looking for some sense of what an average amount of screen use is for a child of 7, and also how to manage his behavioural meltdowns when we turn them off/ insist he gets outside, and how to effectively limit screens when a newborn is imminent!