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Screen time for preschoolers!

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LingDiLong · 03/06/2014 14:44

I tend to keep screen time at a minimum for this age group, usually no more than 30 minutes. However, I recently got an Ipad and I'm finding that if I allow them all (2 nearly 3 year olds and a nearly 4 year old) 15 minutes each on it then one of the kids wants to watch each child's turn and therefore ends up having more like 45 minutes screen time!

What should I do? It seems a shame to ban the Ipad altogether, all the apps they use are educational in one way or another and they get lots of pleasure from it. Do I just need to be tougher and not allow them to 'watch' each other?

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Lilbup · 03/06/2014 14:47

Could you just cut each child down slightly to having a turn of 10 min each and then they're still only having 30 min in total?

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