Screen time

I feel like I maybe give my baby too much screen time. I've been pretty poorly recently, dad works away a lot and sometimes dancing fruits is the only thing to stop my baby screaming at me and the only way I get to eat.

Some days he definitely watches it too much but I do it sporadically and sing with him, put him in a bouncer, take him for an hour long walk, read with him every day.

I see so many mums saying about screen time and I'm now sat here feeling like a bad mum :(

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Oh we all do it. Dancing fruit is a fav ♥️♥️

I literally had the conversation with my mother in law this afternoon, and limited screen time is not a thing in my house!
I constantly have it on as back ground noise as my partner works a lot!
We love mrs Rachel, currently watching her as I type so I can get the bottle done!

I think a lot of people like to write about it but not even practice it themselves. Wouldn’t worry too much. There’s obviously some studies done that say it CAN be bad. But at the end of the day we’re all human. Especially if husbands are working away it is difficult. A large majority of us probably had a lot of screen time when we were younger and I bet most of us are fine. Don’t beat yourself up mama! The weather has also been rubbbish! I’m sure once the weather improves we’ll all be out more exploring too ♥️

My baby watches the tv even if we try our best to stop her! We have it on in the background so it’s not baby programmes but she’s fascinated by it 🤣 she particularly likes the chase which actually allows us to have dinner sometimes because it’ll keep her quiet 😅 we do try and turn the tv off and play with her etc but sometimes you just need a moment to relax and watch telly!

Dancing fruits is a lifesaver! I only discovered it a month ago, wish it was earlier😂😅

my telly is on all day every day 😂 i grew up watching telly and it didn’t do me any harm; i don’t get these people that are ‘anti screen times’ when we live in a generation where everything is a screen it’s impossible not to look/watch 🤷🏻‍♀️ and you’d go out of your mind with no telly on duribg the day! x

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