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How to not have children who are addicted to screens

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AdrianeMole · 01/09/2023 13:46

Thinking way ahead here about my baby's future, I see threads here about kids always on tablets etc. Are there parents out there who's children don't have devices or use them very sparingly and how have you managed this?

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Livinginanotherworld · 02/09/2023 14:23

Namddf · 01/09/2023 22:22

@Livinginanotherworld How old are your kids?

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Mine have flown the nest, but I’m a Nanna who reinforces my offspring’s style of parenting regarding screens and tv and fully agree with it. My own kids would never and still don’t use a screen whilst at the table or in company. We all connect in the real world and my kids and grandkids are bright, popular and fully engaged with the world around them.

We had no trouble taking our kids to restaurants and traveling with them before screens were a thing, so why does everyone feel they are so essential now ? What do you think we all did to entertain them in “ the old days” ?

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 02/09/2023 16:42

frootitootie · 02/09/2023 00:15

Another perspective - I was relaxed about tv when dd was tiny, and she was allowed to look at photos on my phone too, then I got her an Amazon Fire thing when she was 5.

If she wants to watch TV she's welcome to.

Basically screens are part of her life and have been since she was about 2.

But she's totally uninterested. She will watch tv occasionally, I've managed to get her to play a baking game online a couple of times on a long journey, but that's it.

So maybe some of it is nature and not just nurture?

Maybe if I'd restricted it she would be keener? Maybe she wouldn't. No way of knowing.

Interesting. I never really restricted either.

My Dd has no interest in social media at all.

stayathomer · 04/09/2023 00:29

there’s a few posters who have mentioned how kids are isolated because they don’t use screens. You’ll find kids live more on games, TikTok and YouTube with very little snapchat- they don’t sit and communicate all night with each other and definitely don’t need hours and hours of it! And the poster who says their kids say a 14yo is seen as strange because of he has little screen time- well isn’t he just unlucky they’re the circles he runs in, Id suspect that class would have found him weird anyway, was an idiotic reason to leave someone out- personally I’d be talking to my kids about being inclusive and how everyone likes different things.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 04/09/2023 09:20

well isn’t he just unlucky they’re the circles he runs in, Id suspect that class would have found him weird anyway

Nice.

LifeIsShitJustNow · 04/09/2023 16:55

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 02/09/2023 16:42

Interesting. I never really restricted either.

My Dd has no interest in social media at all.

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I controlled the amount of time my dcs spent on TV/screens etc..

They are young adults with no interest in social media at all.
They aren’t that keen on films etc… either.

One uses Snapchat to communicate with his friends, the other uses WhatsApp.

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