Mine: Before this I was pretty dead set that elementary school kids don't need phones. Now? I have taken an old iPhone we have set up as a house phone and given DD full texting privileges. Not only that I downloaded Kids Messenger on to it. She has been having a blast connecting to friends.
The one year olds caught on to big sis's tv show. They are obsessed with Little Baby Bum. I should care more, but, it allows me like 15 minutes to get work done, which I have to use to record teaching videos for my students.
I just realized that my 3 month old can see the TV from her swing and is intently watching a dumb YouTube show. I’m dying inside, but don’t have the energy to move her. Hope you like learning how to make slime, baby.
Post by goldengirlz on Mar 28, 2020 12:40:33 GMT -5
No electronics in the bedroom (with all of us jockeying for a place to do work, sometimes I send her to her room with the iPad so I can have some quiet during a meeting)
Every day is pajama day
No booze on school nights (oh, wait ... that one was for me)
No electronics in the bedroom (with all of us jockeying for a place to do work, sometimes I send her to her room with the iPad so I can have some quiet during a meeting)
Every day is pajama day
No booze on school nights (oh, wait ... that one was for me)
Bahaha, yeah that went right out the window for me, too.
Yup, screen time. We haven't allowed any screen time until the quarantine. Now we watch the virtual story times our library does,and today out of desperation I tried Planet Earth haha
Screen time here as well. The other morning I looked at the clock and realized DS had been on his tablet watching Blippi (God help me!) and Baby Joy Joy for almost 3 hours
Before C was only allowed iPad on weekends, but now we are letting him use it a little bit on weekdays for sight word games and to watch a small amount of videos if he did his schoolwork when asked without complaining.
Post by usuallylurking on Mar 28, 2020 13:13:25 GMT -5
Screen time has increased, but thankfully is not a free for all (...yet?).
Play doh time has increased significantly.
Bedtime has shifted later. My kids suddenly get this wave of energy at like 6/6:30 and want to go outside and play and they’re out there until dark. I’m not going to fight that, lol.
Screen time. Plenty of TV time. And H put games on one of his old phones specifically for DS on our airplane trip to AZ this past October. We were limiting when he could play on it... now it's every day. Yesterday he got an hour on it while H and I figured out dinner.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Mar 28, 2020 17:42:38 GMT -5
Rule still enforced: Wash your hands. Don't touch other people's faces. New rule: Don't leave our property without an adult and stay away from everybody.
Rules that are out the window: Every other damn thing.
I think we may buy DD a tablet. This hasn't been on my radar AT ALL in the past. Our household owns one tablet, and it's almost 6 years old and doesn't run a lot of software we'd like to use. That said, I'm a little unconvinced that the tablet time is truly helping us get more undisturbed work time... I swear I spent the first half of my "workday" yesterday helping DD troubleshoot shit on the tablet. A new one might crash less, but then again, maybe the issue is more on the streaming services and apps we're trying to use sucking or not having enough bandwidth...
I have mixed feelings on telling DD to stop asking permission for stuff (like watching a show or whatever). I mean, I DO love that she is so good about asking permission and mostly respecting boundaries, so I don't really want to tell her she doesn't need to ask, but I really don't want to get interrupted every 23 minutes between episodes. Like, why the hell won't she just try to get away with stuff? Because she could get away with so much right now...
It's a hard time. Normally there's so much she can do. Go to school, play with friends, do stuff with us, play outside in our yard or go to the park (weather permitting), family outings to places, visiting grandparents, etc. With us being busy with work + no school + no friends + no park + shitty weather + no outings + no grandparents... well, she still has a million toys, but a buttload of the stuff she normally likes to do is off limits AND she is really lonely. If she could just get together with the neighbor girl for part of each day, that would be huge, but that's explicitly illegal right now with the stay at home order.
Post by minniemouse on Mar 28, 2020 17:54:07 GMT -5
They get way more tv time and treats now. We have a lot of new rules for safety. Don’t climb on your sister, don’t jump off the swing in our backyard, no twirling or spinning anywhere near furniture. Basically avoid any activity that could lead to needing emergency medical care like stitches. I have yelled “be careful”’so much. I’m a helicopter parent now.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Mar 28, 2020 18:21:51 GMT -5
Mine are getting a little more screen time, but at specific times/intervals. But the one thing that is a free-for-all is that if a friend is calling them on Kids Messenger and they want to talk, they can answer unless they are in the middle of school work. I feel like they are missing out on so much socializing that I'm ok with letting them take every opportunity they can get to connect. Of course, they rarely actually TALK to their friends...they play games with them.
On the weekends, DD wakes up first to go watch TV before us grow ups get up. This morning she couldn’t even tell me how many shows she watched, she watched that many.
Also I bought extra cookies from Wegmans for my little Cookie Monster AKA DS.
I left them get as filthy as they want when playing outside. Usually I try to keep the damage to a minimum, but really what's the point. End of season for these clothes and they will outgrow them before we can go out in public again!
The “no Minecraft ever” rule finally went out the window this week. My 7 year old son has been begging to play it for months now. His birthday was last Thursday and I bought it for him. He and my 11 year old daughter have been happily playing for two days now and it’s given me some much needed time to breathe.
Post by bookqueen15 on Mar 28, 2020 20:37:25 GMT -5
I signed my DD up for kids messenger, she loves the connection of talking to friends on there and sending them messages. She's 6 and in kindergarten, I didn't plan to have her use kids messenger at this age. Bedtime is later, now that we're not waking up before dawn for a 7:40 school start time. A little more screen time with her fire tablet because she uses kids messenger on there, not much more time watching TV though because of the negative impacts on her behavior if she watches too much. Definitely more sweet treats.
Basically, anything goes, as long as it doesn’t end in an ER visit.
My 5 year old was doing some really dumb parkour thing through the living room, and I told him that if he busted his head open I’d use my stapler at home to close it back up, because we’re not going to the hospital. That threat worked for the afternoon.
- Screen time rules (I had to change all the Disney circle and screentime settings) - Nutrition rules (ice cream, chips, cookies, lucky charms are now all acceptable basically whenever) - face time and kids messenger rules (used to be please don’t video chat, now it’s like whatever, talk to your friends please!) - bedtime - sleeping in
This whole thing will define their generation in ways I don’t think we can truly understand or appreciate as adults.
Well I am glad I am not alone in the lack of food rules, lol. Those are definitely true here, too. You want a Reese's egg for dessert after breakfast? Okay don't even care.
For myself I used to only have wine on the weekends. Well. That is not true anymore...