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Yay!!! Congrats! We are going on 14 months with our little guy screen free! It’s not easy but I know that long term it will make a huge difference! I can’t stand seeing kids literally everywhere on their iPad and they are still so young! Especially with all the information out there that states how it negatively impacts their brains and overall growth.
@Annie yeahhhh, while I may put the odd Disney show on once in awhile, I can confidently say that my child will not go near a tablet for the foreseeable future. Or phones, excepting video calls because that's how we call relatives and she likes seeing videos of herself.
Right! Like I said I have to judgement for anyone who does screen time. Every family and their needs are so different. It’s been easy for us because I’m blessed to be a SAHM and a baby who sleeps and does independent play well! If I worked outside of the home or had a velcro baby I may have felt differently.
It just made me so mad when people acted like I was crazy and could never do it. It also makes me mad when I see people say that someone is a bad mom for allowing screen time. We’re all in the trenches just trying our best
My son was also over 1 before he had screen time. Even now, 90% of the time it’s either baby Mozart (with either a single non moving or black screen) or dory’s reef cam. But he’s not fussed about the tv at all. He likes the sounds from in the night garden so my dad bought him a tonie box for his 1st birthday back in June and he LOVES the iggle piggle tonie so I just use that before bed and we cuddle while he drinks his milk and listens to it. I do usually have the tv on during the day if we’re home, either a YouTube or Spotify playlist for music; as I just can’t function without it but he doesn’t care about the screen. He DOES love a phone but we FaceTime family a lot and so if he grabs mine, he’s usually asking for nanny and grandad and holds it to his ear 😂 I love that you’re non judgemental tho and understand we’re just tryna survive toddlerhood 😂xx
Keep going! We managed to get to 2. Now there are favourite programmes to watch - but I continue to try to avoid TV as much as possible. To be fair, there’s a lot that’s able to be learned from good programmes. Bug I just worry about attention and concentration - so will continue to try to be reasonably careful about what is watched, and to be conscious about duration.
Thats so good, well done 🩷 my little girl doesnt get screen time often (shes just over 2) but when we do let her watch it her favourite show is Gabbys dollhouse - its really cute. When she watches it she isnt glued and unresponsive , she dances and sings and acts out what there doing - which i like. Hate it when i see kids just glued with there tongues hanging out. But we make a point to not put the tv on often. Only on cold rainy days we might let her have an hour here and there 😊
We don't even have a TV which I get crap for 🤣 my kids do get access to TV at their grandparents houses because I also don't make people turn them off in their own home
Congrats and you deserve to be proud! I feel like trying to have open discussions with other moms about the drawbacks of screen time often turns to "how dare you judge me!" They get so defensive. Not judging doesn't mean keeping your mouth shut about the inherent cons. We aren't a no screen time house (mostly because my husband needs the background noise and you can only listen to the same songs over and over so many times), but I think we've done pretty well. I'll put a Disney movie on once or twice a week or maybe watch one of my own shows, and then go a few days with no tv at all and we don't seem to have any problem.