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Only for a special occasion. For instance, they watch the polar express every year in December. But it's on the calendar we receive so I guess you could opt out and keep your kid home that day if you weren't comfortable with that.

I wouldn't be psyched about my kids watching a movie at school, but The Minions doesn't bother me in general, and as long as it's a once in a very rare occasion thing, I wouldn't be furious over it.

1. Does the childcare allow movies - Technically I think yes. But its for the older kids. At our old center it was every Friday afternoon for the 4+ year olds. At our current center, they will walk to the Imax 3 times this summer I believe.

2. No way I would want any age under 4 watching movies at school. They are more than happy to be playing.

3. No way would I want them watching something rated PG that I didn't pre-approve.

They have, on occasion, watched movies when it coincided with the lesson of the week. So one week they learned all about bugs, and on Friday they had PJ/movie day and watched Bug's Life. I have no problem with that.

But once D came home and his paper said they watched a movie (also Minions, I think) because it was raining outside. And he talked about things from ET that I know he'd only know if he'd seen the movie. I went to the assistant director about that. She did talk to the teacher about showing movies just because it's raining/too hot to go outside - they have plenty of other things for the kids to do indoors!

ETA: They watched The Good Dinosaur during their dinosaur week, and I was concerned about that because D is kind of sensitive to some scary scenes. They hadn't checked with us about it first. Luckily he loved it, but I was really afraid we'd be dealing with nightmares from that one!

I'm not a fan of paying other people (daycare, babysitters, whatever) so that my kid can watch a movie or TV. They can do that with me!

...only exceptions would be a field trip/event (like @T.H.O.U: mentioned) or maybe a very specific holiday occurrence. But even those should be one-off special things, age-appropriate, etc etc.

Yes, but not very often. Once in the summer and I think the last time was before the Christmas break. There are forms if you want to opt out. I would be ok with Minions.

Our day care does allow it. I was upset at first because B was so little and because I'm really sensitive about letting him develop interests that don't involve screens (I'm from a family of techies and visiting them is a truly sad sight).

Now I kind of like that they watch stuff. We can't seem to work TV time into our routine at home since we come from work late and hang out outside, but I do want DS to see movies I loved when I was younger. So we're getting the best of both worlds in that sense

In August they do movies days where they have the kids where pajamas serve popcorn and watch a movie. Although dd isn't old enough for them yet, so I've just seen it mentioned in the school newsletter and don't know exactly how it works.

They have been watching movies every day from 5:00 until close. I don't like it but I don't really have an option to change it. Otherwise, I really like her daycare.

I'm surprised to see that a daycare would serve popcorn - that would upset me more than a movie.

@avivoca: Have you talked to the teachers/director? this would be way too much for me and I certainly think as parents we do have a say to change things.

Oops, I didn't realize Minions was PG. I know DH has turned it on for DD.

Daycare sometimes resorts to screen time when it is raining (we're Californians so we melt in drizzle) or too flippin hot (like this week) since they don't have AC. I don't love it but the kids and the DCPs are human. They don't need to be doing their best learning every single moment.

We're at an in home center and occasionally DCP's husband sets up a folding chair in the middle of the kids and watches football or baseball after 5pm. I cannot understand why he doesn't watch in another room since the kids would drive me nuts. That doesn't really bother me either.

Our old, at home daycare did movies occasionally like Halloween and Christmas. It wasn't too big of a deal. Our current daycare doesn't have tvs, so no movies. We also haven't taken our almost 4 year old to a movie yet because of his attention span.

Nope never at daycare or preschool (ages 1-4). I"m pretty lax about those things, but no screens at the schools my kids have attended.

Ours does with strict guidelines. Only for kids 3 and up, PG movies must have parental signature for permission, and it must be planned/posted. My son's class watches a movie that goes with their theme once a month (so, when they studied Africa, they watched the Lion King), which I personally think is excessive. But the kids are allowed to opt-out and do other activities while the movie is on and they still have recess, so I try not to mind.

In my pre-k class (3-5), we watch movies only occasionally (winter holidays and spring break time), but do it more frequently in the summer.

They get a 30 min video related to the week's theme on Friday.

No way. No TVs at our center based daycare. I wouldn't be ok with that. I'm paying them to play with and teach my LO.

They have movie days once in a while for ore-school age and up. I know during the school year older kids get movies like once a monthish.

I'm fine with this as long as they are watching appropriate movies. I trust the ladies. I don't know what they watch but movies like minions wwe watch at home anyways.

DS and lots of the kids are there 45-50 hours s week, so if a few hours s month are spent watching movies I think that is fine.