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My GDs are 9 and 11.
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I have kids, and my policy is no social media until their much older. It's poison.
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So it's bad....but has it's uses I guess.
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We do 45 minute stints, 11 year old son. We just got him Minecraft, no console game, and not much on the computer game-wise.
He watches YouTube - I will ask him to change what he's watching sometimes, but he quickly complies because I think he also knows it's not really good / productive. I let him watch Star Wars stuff, any productive stuff (Mark Robers, Steven Gould), history stuff (mainly WW2). We watch some Disney stuff together. I have him play my game (Lords Mobile) when we're driving. He also does Archaic Tank Warfare, the most realistic tank game I could fine. He gets in trouble for reading too much. We sort of encouraged the idea that if he breaks his "going to bed" rule, he'd do it on books or Legos. |
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Bazinga!
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15/17 boys. It's been a struggle. After some very lackluster academic performances at the beginning of the school year I scheduled our wifi network to turn off at 8pm Sunday-Thursday. Cellphones are also turned off at the same time. Immediate academic improvement. More family conversations including them interacting with each other. Should have done this years ago. They're not terrible students nor do they lack for outside hobbies. But they are addicted to their screens.
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8 and 5 year old girls. For better or worse, we all do about 60-75 minutes of entertainment-centric screen time a day, more on the weekend. The time comes after dinner, and dinner is preceded by outside time/walk/structured sport. However, during stupid hot Alabama summers, we definitely spend the afternoons indoors out from the heat and reading or watching something.
The oldest usually will play some sort of learning game on a computer, the youngest will watch something wholesome. My wife and I don't model perfect behavior — during my hour I'm usually playing something on the PS5 and my wife is on her phone. BUT, when the time is up, it's up. The oldest tells me that she has classmates with their own phones and Instagram accounts. I don't doubt it and I find that messed up. Last edited by rzthomas; 03-18-2023 at 07:26 AM. |
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MineCraft is HUGE..and some 'pro's even play it. Quote:
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When our kids were young we let them have about an hour to play video games, then we booted them outside to play. We had a large wooded property (those of you that came to the Rambles know what I'm referring to) for them to explore and play, plus many games of family catch, badminton, baseball, and riding bikes.
There was no way we were going to let them play video games all day when you can enjoy the great outdoors right out the back door. W. |
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Minecraft I would say is exceptionally creative and social—you can play with others. Little kids take right to it, then some never stop. I would sometimes find my guys still playing in high school (back in the boring zoom school days). It is totally low tech (dont need new or dedicated hardware) and has no shooting etc type violence.
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Creative, interactive with freinds, requires give and take collaboration. I am good with 2 hours of that. |
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Thanks for all the feedback on Minecraft. Looks like it has creative and educational aspects. Still, I can't see how spending more than a couple hours a day on a video game is healthy.
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