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Is it okay to put on content that kids don’t really engage with to reduce screen time?
Limiting screen time has always been a battle in our house, but I’m wondering if I’ve stumbled on a solution. I find that if I put on something that is a bit too advanced for them (age 4 and 2), not anything with adult content but just something that requires sustained attention, they’ll quickly move on to play after about 15 minutes. They might occasionally look up if something interesting happens, but 95% of the time they ignore it. Before this, it’s always been a battle of setting alarms and tantrums whenever I turned it off, and honestly just looking at them being so entranced by the screen made me a bit uneasy, even if it was always age-appropriate content. I’ve been putting on old musicals like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Music Man, Mary Poppins, and while they are “kid friendly” they’re not really something my kids can focus on. Even the musical numbers with all the movement and color don’t impress them at all. I do still turn it off after a while, I don’t just leave it running non-stop, but it seems like it’s really turning down their dependence on television. But am
I just kidding myself? Is this actually a decent strategy? Or is even having it on the background a problem?
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Limiting screen time has always been a battle in our house, but I’m wondering if I’ve stumbled on a solution. I find that if I put on something that is a bit too advanced for them (age 4 and 2), not anything with adult content but just something that requires sustained attention, they’ll quickly move on to play after about 15 minutes. They might occasionally look up if something interesting happens, but 95% of the time they ignore it. Before this, it’s always been a battle of setting alarms and tantrums whenever I turned it off, and honestly just looking at them being so entranced by the screen made me a bit uneasy, even if it was always age-appropriate content. I’ve been putting on old musicals like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Music Man, Mary Poppins, and while they are “kid friendly” they’re not really something my kids can focus on. Even the musical numbers with all the movement and color don’t impress them at all. I do still turn it off after a while, I don’t just leave it running non-stop, but it seems like it’s really turning down their dependence on television. But am
I just kidding myself? Is this actually a decent strategy? Or is even having it on the background a problem?
#relationships
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