Screen time

Realistically how much screen time do your little ones have ? Hate being made to feel guilty but we are hitting the terrible twos and it feels like it’s is the only thing that keeps him happy these days 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄

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Definitely too much! I try to keep it to the more educational / age appropriate stuff. I find he doesn’t sleep as well when he watches cartoons aimed at older kids. You’re totally right though it does calm them down and distract them when you need to get other stuff done. Sometimes needs must. We live in a world dictated by screens 🤷‍♀️

A lot. We basically have TV on most of the time we spend in our living room (and that's where all the toys are). My son is only really watching it for some short periods of time and then always turns his attention to playing with toys/sensory stuff, but he asks to put it back on if I (dare to) switch it off.

He also started to enjoy all the nursery rhymes videos with dancing recently, so we dance together to these videos A LOT. I'm 8 months pregnant at the moment and it's hard but would be even harder to do it without the audio/video props.

More than we would like. I too feel the mum guilt when it comes to TV but do try to take her out at least once a day and do developmental/ sensory play with her too. She’s obsessed with baby shark at the moment so likes to watch it on YouTube and dance to the song

Most of the time we're in the livingroom or I'll play music. Mum guilt is real but he's not watching constantly. It's more just for background. My friend only does 1 hour a day and it makes me feel like I'm failing my son, but I need noise

Lots when she is ill (which seems to happen quite frequently at the moment). Couple of times a week otherwise

It's the only way she'll eat breakfast and dinner (lunch seems fine without it) and usually an hour in the morning so I can shower and do washing etc. Cbeebies and Hey Duggee on youtube.

Generally only during and just after dinner (cbeebies bedtime and bluey on disney+)
I always said i would never repeat the mistake of allowing too much screen time like i did with me eldest (12years ago) as he became obsessed, aggressive and couldn't cope without it.
Never again 😅

Too much but trying to reduce it, he's been ill for the past month now we are ill so he has had more than usual

My partner is away this week so it’s on alot ! It’s the only way he will eat meals as well! Xx

Maximum half an hour twice a week (usually with dad) and maybe once or twice a week with grandparents. We keep to low stimulation programmes. We don’t have a TV so it’s easier. There are lots of times where it would definitely be easier if they watched it more but we try really hard for it to be intentional and not part of our daily routine. We use our Yoto a lot and listen to the radio and podcasts daily. I think you can have an intention of what you’d like to do and then there is how you live and it has to meet somewhere in the middle, don’t be too hard on yourself x

1 h per day when I have to work in morning and get the emails done. It is the same routine so he knows 9AM there is cartoon time until 10 AM.
On weekend zero. As I think me and my parent don't work so no excuses to have TV on😅 but I think because I was raised without TV and I get annoyed when TV is on and there is constant noise from it.
But I put a lot of music instead. Or nursery songs.

0 screen time. Actually she’s never seen a cartoon in her life. But i realize when you need to work or do something and make them busy tv is a good way

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