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if your child has a gameboy/playstaion/xbox

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festiveface · 30/01/2006 14:22

or even play around on the pc, do you limit their time doing it?
How much time do they spend on these things?
need to compare and see if i am unreasonable!

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Katemum · 30/01/2006 14:27

My 5 yo sometimes plays on his dad's xbox. This is limited to about half an hour at the weekend and then not every weekend. It is limited more because dh is not back til bedtime in the week and i flatly refuse to figure out how to work the thing. Ds watches far too much telly instead.

4blue1pink · 30/01/2006 14:30

None in the week ...saturday mornings and maybe a little on sundays....its awful because they love it - I HATE it so its no win!

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serenity · 30/01/2006 14:34

We don't really have any hard and fast time limits, I tend to play it by ear tbh. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are no games before lunch at the weekend, no games on school nights where they have an after school activity and if they do have it on in the evening they have to have changed, emptied their lunch boxes and tidied their room first, and it has to go off at 6, so we don't have 'but I need to save it!' when I'm telling them to sit up at the table.

jac34 · 30/01/2006 14:38

My DS's had a PS2 for christmas,they also have game boys.The time they spend on them, seems far more limited than some of their friends and sometimes I feel really mean.

On week days they are not allowed on them before school and after school only, once they have done homework,reading,etc and eaten their dinner.
They go to bed at 7:30pm, so this proberbly only allows them 1 hour at the most, less if they have a bath.

On weekends they are proberbly limited to 2 hours, spaced over the day.Luckily, we are usually in and out alot so they don't get much chance to play.

If they make a fuss about going anywhere or doing anything, because they would rather stay in and play their games,then they get a BAN.

They clearly love playing their new PS2, but sometimes I wish we hadn't bought it.It's just very hard being strict about it when some of their friends are allowed to play all day.

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festiveface · 30/01/2006 14:44

dh got ds2 a playstation against my better judgement. ds1 is totally into the pc and although he is a complete wizz on it and knows far more than me and is planning on a future job in that area i still only allow him 1 hour every other day. ds2 gets the same on the playstation.

ds1 is totally allergic to any kind of excercise so i don't want to encourage him to sit on his bum too much iyswim.

ds2 is a nightmare and when i tell him to come off the ps it's a case of 'in a minute in a minute in a minute'

and of course, i am the worlds meanest mummy coz everybody else at school is unlimited...so they tell me!

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elmie · 17/03/2006 23:47

Hi, Mine have theirs on fridays, after school( if good at school) for a hour each and then at the week ends for two hours each day - taking turns-. Football, reading, going to friends, going out on their bikes, fills the rest of day! No Games from monday to Thursday. And they have TV on Mondays and Tuesdays after school and in the mornings at the weekend (3hours). I think that keeps their minds healthly and they don't get rattey we me!!!

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