Poll: How much screen time do your kids get?

[Deleted]

Mine are 4&6. They get tv in the morning till 8 (school days) or 9 (non school days). That is usually it, but sometimes they also get a half hour show before bed.

My 4 yo will watch a movie every other day as well. That's what babysits her while I work out.

They also play electronic games occasionally but it's not a daily occurrence. When it does happen, it's for too long, maybe an hour. This is much more common in the winter than summer though.

[madringal]

Jul 12, 2012 15:32:51 GMT -5 liveintheville said:

Jul 12, 2012 15:30:00 GMT -5 madringal said:

Too much I am sure. DD1 is 4 and last night she was playing in her room. I walked into her saying "Xfinity on Demand" to her dolls. Mother of the year right here.

Awesome! We'd be great drinking buddies

:beer:

[mrshandy]

DS is almost 2.

We have the news and the Today Show on in the morning and he watches it a little but mostly ignores it.

It wasn't until this past weekend when it was so freaking hot and I was exhausted that I turned to cartoons. I turned on Little Einsteins. He seemed to like it and I suspect he watched it before at another DCP house when our main DCP went out of the country for 8 weeks.

It was cute, he kept saying "whoa" and was totally mesmerized. It was great to have a little peace to relax.

[dnabaker]

None. We're also going for none under 2 y/o. DS is 19 months and DD is 2 months.

[dragonfly08]

My kids are 5 and 8. They get less than an hour/day of screen time, probably closer to 30 minutes most days...no broadcast TV just stuff from the DVR or Netflix, occasionally some computer/iPad use.

[ECB]

Too much! I know it. But he doesn't turn into a zombie, though. Most of the time he's playing w/ his toys while the TV is on.

[Deleted]

2-3 hours a day.

Oh well.

I'd never get out of the house without Dora.

DD is 2.5.

[ohgillian]

Age 2, probably an average of 20-30 minutes per day. That's averaging in Saturday AMs, when I sleep in and DH lets him watch Curious George.

[teacherjulie]

Alice is 2.5 and we started watching tv when she was 2 at the request of her speech therapist. She watches sesame street or Dora. Right now she is a Dora kid and only wants Dora. She gets 2-4 episodes depending on what's going on.

[mollybrown]

Jul 14, 2012 6:26:31 GMT -5 teacherjulie said:

Alice is 2.5 and we started watching tv when she was 2 at the request of her speech therapist. She watches sesame street or Dora. Right now she is a Dora kid and only wants Dora. She gets 2-4 episodes depending on what's going on.

Fascinating that your daughter's speech therapist recommended TV. My son has a speech delay, and I noticed anecdotally that watching TV seemed to be good for his language development. He will say all kinds of interesting things about a show that he watches, beyond what we even think he's capable of. Shows like Sesame also introduce words that I think of as complex (like deciduous) that I would never have even said to him, but he picks them up! I'll ask his SLP her thoughts.

[sugarbear]

Average, between one to two hours a day. But this is primarily because we are both home with DS this summer and he still wakes up at 5:30 every day. If we have nowhere to get to, we let him watch an hour in the morning, but he's usually playing, too. Then a half hour before dinner, when he's actually sitting and watching.