Do parents even try anymore? Just countless amounts of screen time when in public or at sporting events.
It’s like books don’t exist
It’s like books don’t exist
Young kids and Ipads
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A sizeable portion never tried to begin with. I'll be monitoring this thread though, I always find the commentary on these threads fun.
I still try - sitting in the McDonald's play place right now buried in my phone while my kid plays in the sticky play place
Im giving my embryos ipads for christmas this year
I’d give them motorized bikes and scooters as well so they can continue not getting any exercise using their bodies, continue being fatties while drinking pop and eating junk food too all the time. Parents are failing their children in today’s society.
I let my kids(7&5) have em from after school about 4:30 till dinner bout 5:45 most nights. After dinner if they want to be entertained they gotta use the playroom or we do stuff outside. Of course depending on sports they might not even get em that much with practices after school.
In public though? Absolutely not. At minimum kids should be able to order their own food and make eye contact by age 8 or so. Just my opinion.
In public though? Absolutely not. At minimum kids should be able to order their own food and make eye contact by age 8 or so. Just my opinion.
It is a daily battle. We significantly limit screen time during the week and mix in lots of family game nights and sports. Our son is not allowed to take an iPad into a restaurant and there's no way he'd bring one into a sporting event--kid LOVES football and soccer.
On the weekends we're a little more liberal, but nothing like these parents who use the iPad as a babysitter/alternate caregiver. Every time I see a small kid with his face buried in a screen I want to give the parent the book, Screen Kids.
My 7 year old last year in school learned about what harmful foods and drinks do to your teeth and has drank water and enjoys fruits ever since. Luckily my youngest just followed suit cuz "big brudder does". I got super lucky in that regard.
What if they are reading books on them? My kids have lots of educational books and games on their Amazon Fire’s. They have a 2 hr limit per day on the weekends and it turns off. You can set timers and block certain stuff. We took You Tube Kids off because it’s largely garbage.
My 7 year old already can do multiplication and division because of some games he plays. He also is learning computer programming and Spanish all on his own. We still read to him and have him read to us at night but the amount of knowledge they can receive through their tablets is crazy.
He also is a dinosaur expect and can pronounce names I even don’t know how to.
I'm also more liberal on weekends but cutoff is dinner time still. It's amazing what hobbies or interests develop just by telling your kid or kids to put the damn thing away.
Yep you have to set boundaries with screen time. Then it’s all Legos, Magna-Tiles, and coloring/drawing.
Our 3 year old still takes a nap on the weekends so we let the 7 year old have extra tablet time then.
To your post it is amazing what they can learn on them. My oldest when at 4/5 was using his tablet combined with blocks to learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Completely mind blown. A party trick was asking him random math questions for a while.
Agree. They can learn so many things that they want to outside of school and dig even deeper into subjects they enjoy. He’s already doing things at a 3rd grade level his teacher told us and he’s in 1st grade.
His hand writing needs works however lol
We’ve handled screens differently depending on age and type of device
No phones until 13
Turn in phones at night until 16 or 17
My wife did spot checks of phones for the first couple years they had them.
Had a family iPad that anyone could use - mainly for games or making movies, that kind of multimedia stuff.
We don’t allow them to sit on them at meals or out in public. To be honest, adults are no better than kids when it comes to phone addiction.
We also don’t drag our kids to adult stuff where you’re not engaging with them. If you have to give a kid a phone maybe you picked the wrong event or activity.
No phones until 13
Turn in phones at night until 16 or 17
My wife did spot checks of phones for the first couple years they had them.
Had a family iPad that anyone could use - mainly for games or making movies, that kind of multimedia stuff.
We don’t allow them to sit on them at meals or out in public. To be honest, adults are no better than kids when it comes to phone addiction.
We also don’t drag our kids to adult stuff where you’re not engaging with them. If you have to give a kid a phone maybe you picked the wrong event or activity.
We put our phones down as much as possible around the kids. Helps set a good example if mom and dad aren’t looking at their phones during dinner.
I think you’ve summed up our situation exactly. Weekdays for us are severely limited but the weekends don’t become a free for all .
It’s an observation but when I attend my kids sporting events other parents just allow IPAD time whereas my other child can either watch the event, read or play. I just don’t get it.
Ok, I think reading on the IPAD is probably fine but it is still “screen time.”
Maybe I’m just trying to shelter my kids from the inevitable phone and constant screen time.
I really like this.
I have been reading significantly more in 2024 (two books so far) and think it’s a better example vs constant scrolling
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