Parenting

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How much tablet and screen time do your kids get?

I’m Alex or the ‘$degen cookie guy’. Early-ish to Farcaster and interested in meeting others who share a community oriented mindset! Building /surfcast /analog


The Family Link app is pretty great. I usually have educational/creative games set to unlimited, 30 mins for Disney+ and PBS Video, and sometimes I'll enable Netflix if I'm with her while watching. The tablet "goes to sleep" at 6:30, which is disappointing but it's okay. She's been using it since she was 2 and is 4 now.

Also, if you feed your kids hours of YouTube brain rot, and then yank it away from them suddenly, they are obviously going to freak TF out. Don't do that.

I think the important thing with videos is finding something mentally engaging. If your kid is talking back to Daniel Tiger when he asks them a question, that's good. If they're just drooling while Cocomelon plays, that's bad.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse seems to be unexpectedly engaging, but Mickey Mouse Funhouse seems to not be engaging at all, despite a similar structure. Also the media your kid engages with will change over time as well.

We primarily watch PBS kids. Great advice here :)