> 1 hour of TV time PER DAY for small kids is considered restrictive?
In general, probably not. My point was that in the specific case of movies, where even movies designed for children usually run at least 80+ minutes, maybe an exception should be made so that the kid can watch the whole movie in one session if they want to and have the patience and attention span to do so.
You can still limit the average to an hour a day. They just have to mix shorter content with movies to keep the average down.
Breaking off movies after an hour is going to put the break around the act II low point in most children's movies. If the kid got invested in the characters and story that's a terrible place to make them stop until tomorrow.
That's closer to how I'd like to handle it when my 3m old is old enough. But are you able to properly restrict your screen time as well? Seems complicated to tell a kid they can't do something their parents are doing multiple hours a day.
Yes, we don't tend to be on our phones near him. Not just to set a good example, but I've found that being glued to your phone isn't really a great thing anyway. For doing real work I sit in my home office with the door closed.
We don't do this either (I hardly look at the thing at home), but just a look at the other parents bringing in their preschoolers at school is depressing. Half of them have their phone out, and the number of parents you see pushing a pram or stroller with a phone in front of them is absurd.
It's apparently also a hangout spot for (self-awarded) gold star internet parents who love the smell of their own farts and think anyone else wants to smell them.
I would have thought it's much less. What would be an equivalent restriction on the phone/tablet/more actively engaging devices?