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Re:I Am Being Watched by will_work4tears on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:26PM (#6209464)
My son will never have a TV or computer in his room. We will severely limit his TV intake and computer usage. We are active adults, hiking, biking, YMCA events, and will include our son in as much outside activities as possible.

That said, I think it's silly to go to such an extreme and do "zero" screen time. My wife regularly let's my 15 month old play Fischer Price games and he's probably watched three or four Dora the Explorer episodes and a handful of Nihau Kai-Lan shows and maybe a couple Curious George shows. He doesn't seem to be able to watch an entire episode for the most part, and he is still way ahead on development milestones.

Could he be further along? Who knows, he could be further behind. I think it is as bad to be neurotic about these things as neglectful and uncaring to be honest.

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Re:I Am Being Watched by unimpressive on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:12PM (#6209608)
>My son will never have a TV or computer in his room.

Just curious, did you?

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Re:I Am Being Watched by will_work4tears on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:40PM (#6209669)
Great question, IMO, but nope, TV was entirely a family event that happened in the living room. I did, however, spend many hours in my room reading books.

edit: And didn't have computers until I was in my teens. I think my first computer was when I was in 9th grade or so, and they were like 3,000 bucks, so no chance of us having one of our own in our room, lol.

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