How much TV.....

[honeybee434]

Do you think your kids watch on a normal day? No judgements from me, I'm trying to see if I let DD watch too much.

And if they go to daycare, do they watch TV there, too?

[soon2bmrsn]

No tv at daycare. She watches 30-40 minutes a day. Maybe a bit more on weekends.

[jnnfrrose6]

No TV at daycare, but they use iPads to track the kids' daily reports, so those get used occasionally for videos. DS's class has a computer, too, and I've seen them use it for som else's ons and sometimes YouTube dance videos.

At home, weekdays it's 30-60 min tops (some days none) depending on how chaotic it is/when we get home from school and have dinner/etc.

Weekends is probably double that (30ish minutes in the morning in bed with us while mommy and daddy are waking up) and about the same later in the day for the same reasons as weekdays.

[bullybutt]

N could care less about TV. She is a busybody everywhere else. R watches about an hour at daycare and probably an hour or so on various nights if he's in the mood. We have also binge watched some of his shows before.

[missilini]

I was so good about restricting tv until about January. Nursing school has made me a crap mom. I usually turn on the tv, she'll only watch Mother Goose Clubhouse for about an hour in the late afternoon. Just so I can get dinner made and the house picked up. She usually walks around and plays with toys so she's not just watching it. Some days we go without tv at all.

[elainebenes]

Weekdays if he's losing it while I'm making dinner I let him watch a few Peppa episodes which are like 5 mins each which is helpful to limit. Weekends DH has the tv on nonstop so DS gets too much screen time and zombies out. Makes me crazy so I try to keep him in the playroom or plan activities--for both of them..

[ladytiffany24]

No TV at the sitter aside from an occasional movie day. Like some of the others, probably 30-60 minutes in the evening depending on the chaos once we're home. If H is going to be a little late from work, it may be more like 60 minutes while I'm trying to get dinner ready. Some nights, it's none.

On the weekends, it may be double that. Some while we're all waking up in the morning and some sometimes in the afternoons.

I will add though that she's not really one to just sit down and watch TV (unless we put on parts of the movie Frozen). She's usually up and down watching bits and pieces.

At the very least, we TRY to make sure it's something somewhat educational and not like SpongeBob or something (no judgement).

[honeybee434]

Yeah, DD definitely gets to watch a lot more TV than this! I know daycare will have it on in the background sometimes, I guess I should find out how much she actually watches it. (It's an in home daycare). In the mornings we will put on cartoons while she drinks her morning bottle and that's probably at least an hour. And then in the evenings sometimes she will get to watch an hour of TV while she's playing, so it's not constant, but she stops and watches for 5, plays for 5, watches for 5, plays for 5.

Maybe I need to reevaluate.

[mamanorris]

Too much. It's on in the background a lot more than it should be.

[liziz]

Pretty much none at home - the exceptions are a few minutes of doc mcstuffins here and there while I cut her nails, and if H is watching hockey (probably one game/week). She does facetime with family most days (not tv, but still screen time) and likes peek a boo barn (probably 5 min a day of that) on the ipad. We also watch a lot of pictures and videos of "baby" (her) on my phone. She's pretty good about entertaining herself.

At her in-home, she watches probably an hour a day. it's one of the things that has motivated me to get her in to a more educational environment. Often a show in the morning while she eats breakfast, and sometimes one in the last 20 min of her day (when DCP's 10 year old is home from school and watching something). At her center/preschool (currently 2 days/week) there are very few screens - the computer the director uses, and then they have an ipod for music in the classroom. I LOVE IT!

[asunasword]

DS has no interest in most cartoons. He will glance up if we turn on hockey or curling though. I think the noise draws him. If he starts to pay solid attention to it, we turn it off. Otherwise I usually have it on for background noise. I am working on just using music to provide that though.
His in home daycare will only use it for karaoke parties so he gets next to nothing there.

[isolemnlyswear]

Too much as of late. It's typically on in the morning and I try to have it off during the afternoon and evening. With the birth of E it has been on a lot more. She doesn't watch it but in 2-3 minute spurts here and there. I'm in survival mode. I'll reevaluate once I get this whole 2u2 thing under control haha

[hurricanerek]

We're in a similar situation as asunasword. She just doesn't care about most tv. I do have it on in the background when we're home (which isn't often). She gets excited when the Friends theme song starts but other than that, she'd rather read all the books.

[surfmama106]

We usually watch 30-60 min in the morning and about the same in the afternoon. It use to be only one 30m show a day but I have to put it on so I can nurse the baby. Sometimes she sits there totally zombied out and other times she just plays around and watches from time to time. The other day I put on Shrek just to see if she'd sit through a whole movie and she watched the whole thing.

Before DS I cared a lot about the amount of TV and didn't want her watching any, but now I need it sometimes. We don't leave it on in the background, but we only put on Mickey Mouse clubhouse or Sesame Street.

[dawnfire]

E watches some Little Baby Bum or Dave & Ava after breakfast so I can get his teeth brushed/shoes on without a battle royale. Then while I'm getting ready I put it on PBS for Curious George and Daniel Tiger. Usually he watches a few minutes of that then goes to play, so not really watching it.

At DC they watch videos on the iPad pretty much all day (which is one of my beefs with current DC so we're changing.)

I feel bad for letting him watch so much at home, but it's had to be a coping mechanism for us. I try to make sure it's at least something educational. He likes Super Y on netflix, too.

[rlb]

DD is currently obsessed with YouTube, so there's that. DH used it to put RaaRaa the Noisy Lion on, but she's recently learned she can flip through videos, and does she ever. I think she would for hours if we let her. She only watches about 10-60 seconds of something then moves on, but it's pretty much the same 5-10 videos. But she is now asking and crying for the phones/tablets. I have no issue taking it away from her and redirecting her to toys, but I think DH would let her watch for hours if I didn't say anything.

My stance is to regulate it and try not to stress about it too much, because once the summer comes she's going to be on the go and getting a lot of outside time and stimulation. Winter in rural Northern Michigan leaves us pretty limited in outdoor activities, but summer on our lake (with our new boat - yay!) is going to leave her whipped, me thinks. So this is how I don't melt into a guilt puddle.

ladytiffany24, I laughed at your SpongeBob disclaimer, because DH puts it on for her and it drives me batty. lol

[littlemissmarla]

Z used to have way too much screen time and since EI started we have cut back a lot. She gets 1 episode of MM clubhouse in the AM and I know my mom lets her watch another show in the after noon - hopefully that's it! After I get home at 3:30 there is no TV for her but we will give her the Disney Junior app while we change her diaper because she is a creature on the changing table.