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| Mar 12 at 19:45 | comment | added | stan | Our strategy was to make screens as boring as possible (work = no entertainment/videos on screens), and keep them in the office. Apart from phones, we don't have a TV or any other screens outside of our office area. Computers are tools, which is why we introduced her to a physical keyboard and mouse when she turned 5, before a touchscreen, and now she earns playtime in minecraft by doing chores, and being well behaved. The plan is not to forbid her, the plan is to expose her to the tools that computers are, at a gradual and developmentally appropriate pace. | |
| Mar 12 at 19:42 | comment | added | stan | @Kvothe, Nice username, btw. A couple of things, firstly, in this case, the kid is already pretty screen addicted, so he has a bit of catching up to do. Screen addiction is proven to be developmentally bad for children (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353947). In the case of my own daughter, who is 6, screens are not the 'forbidden fruit' as you call it. We work in IT, we have 6 screens in our office between myself, my husband, and my daughter's pc. I know a lot about this because as a responsible parent working in IT, I have to. | |
| Mar 12 at 14:16 | comment | added | FreeMan | Amazingly, as a kid, I didn't watch much TV between when I got home from school & when my parents got home because there were only 3 channels to watch and I couldn't stand soap operas (the only thing on between 3-5pm when I was a kid). I managed to find other things to do and didn't grow up hating my parents, either. People hate their parents for disciplining them because they haven't learned (as adults) the benefits of discipline. | |
| Mar 11 at 17:39 | comment | added | stan | @Questor yes, exactly, although I'll cut the OP's kid some slack because he hasn't gotten much practice at being bored. He's going to need a bit of time to figure that out. Once kids are older and accustomed to entertaining themselves, 100% agree that complaining about being bored should be met with, "here, clean this". I do it with my kiddo too (who is almost 6). When she was younger, my response was "go find something to do! Go play with some toys! figure it out!". Now that she's older, she almost never complains. | |
| Mar 11 at 17:02 | comment | added | Questor | I have never understood parents who complain about their kids being "bored" all of the time and in need of constant entertainment. When I 5 or 6 I learned that saying the words "I am bored" really meant "I want to clean the house!" Learned how to entertain myself fairly quickly after that. | |
| Mar 9 at 16:43 | history | edited | stan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 9 at 14:22 | history | answered | stan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |