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DD is almost one and the past few days we have been watching TV in bed, granted she is sick, but I don't know if she is sick or finally understands TV because it seems to hold her attention.
I am not a huge fan of screen time, but I can see her clap along and when they say Hi or Bye she says it back, so I doubt the 15 minutes isn't going to kill her ...lol

Usually one show a day (so up to an hour, if it's sesame street) unless she's sick, or with grandma. Grandmas follow no rules

I know I am not the norm here and I am certain my vote of 2 hours is going to be on the high end.. (hangs head in shame---not really!!) We are totally ok with DD's amount of screen time.

We have tv on in the morning when we are getting ready so DD watches it for about 30 mins or so and then after dinner we turn it on to cartoons while I clean up and then we snuggle and if she's tired we'll watch for an hour until bedtime. However, if she's not tired then we play. It just depends on the day and the mood. Some days are more and some are less. In the evenings it truly depends on how tired she is from daycare. We get home at 415 and we play, go outside, color, whatever til dinner and then dinner is at 6. We eat dinner and after dinner we wind down/relax/chill. Bedtime is 730.

ETA: I am fully aware I am an outlier regarding the screen time debate.

It varies greatly from day to day - on school days (T, W, Th) he usually has no shows, but might watch a music video with dad before bed (they like Pentatonix). On non school days, when I'm home with both kids, it's usually an hour or so....he watches a show when I put the baby down for a nap 2x a day. Sometimes in the afternoon, he's allowed a second show. They are the 25 min shows, so it's roughly an hour, or maybe a little more. But then there are some days when I need to do some work while the baby is napping, so he might have 2 hours of TV! On weekends, there's often football on in the background, but usually no TV specific to him. Last weekend, he got to watch Home Alone though, and LOVED it.

The baby doesn't watch TV. If football or something happens to be on, that's fine, but I don't put the TV on for him and the older really only watches kid tv when the baby is napping.

Very rarely during the day. I feel so proud when she goes without any! She does sometimes check out videos on my phone (youtube) while doing her yoga I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing, we talk about what she is seeing and she does some amazing poses (for real!)

However, DH has been having her watch more than I'd prefer recently, because he has been caring for her at night. I have been very sick, and grateful for the help, so I want to choose my battles and encourage documentaries and his interaction.

If DH is home she gets more since the TV is on in the morning. But she plays with her toys not sitting down watching it the whole time. When he is traveling then she gets 30-60 a day, just depends on the day. Weekends average 1.5 hrs, all depends how much we are home. We don't bring the ipad for the car. We got a new car and it has a TV but we are only going to use for long car trips.

I know we are on the high end, they have TV on at daycare during drop off/pick up and I know she watches it, and she watches 1-2 shows a night. I do wish it was less, but I feel like TV is the only thing that "unwinds" her at night, otherwise she's running around like crazy and it pushes bedtime back. I can get her to laydown on the couch/in her bed and watch a show on the TV/tablet.

We don't own a TV, but we have a more or less weekly dinner-and-a-movie night with family friends when we either watch half a movie/documentary or a full one. Averaging that over a week, he gets about 15 minutes or less a day.

@FaithFertility: K watches short videos here and there during diaper changes, when she's not having it in the car, etc. My own rule is that as long as we're interacting with her (like asking her to point out something, singing along, clapping) so she isn't just staring at the screen, then it's okay! We probably watch a total of 15 min per day!

Most days none at all. Sometimes a movie or couple shows on the weekend.

it varies. sometimes we go through phases where we let him watch youtube videos or a show for about 30 minutes a day. but he raises such a fuss when they are over, and also asks so many questions during the show/video that the whole thing is not that restful. so then we go back to zero because we just don't feel like dealing with it.

During the week, one, maaaaaybe two shows while I prep dinner. Weekends, closer to two hours, a few episodes when she wakes up and another late afternoon.

@snowjewelz: G never was into it!! But she was clapping with Dora and when she said bye , said bye!!

I agree with you!!!!

DD- none, she's 12 months old
DS- he's 3.5, none during week but he will watch some shows on weekend.

I'll admit my parenting shame here: DS (3) watches about an hour of TV an evening on weekdays while he eats dinner. DH works later, so during this time I prep our dinner and DH and I eat together after DS is in bed. I feel so guilty about this habit! I guess it's more the TV/dinner combo than the screen time itself. He's in full-time daycare so it's the only thing he watches during the week, but we definitely have power struggles about cutting it off. Otherwise he might watch a few shows on the weekend. We never have tv on as background and he doesn't use a phone/iPad unless we're traveling, at the doc's, etc.

Totally depends on the day. I wouldn't even know how to average it. My husband is very fast and loose with the screentime (of all kinds--phone apps, tv, whatever), and I'm super strict with it (unless there's a baby "emergency" where I have to do something with the baby and big sister needs to be entertained).

Last summer before I had the baby, I successfully totally phased out screentime for the toddler. Then I had the baby and was in the weeds all the time, so it was screen time allll the time. Then I cut it out again. And now we're potty training, so it's back in.

I work part-time. Days I work all day, she watches 30 minutes while I get ready and then sometimes 30 minutes in the evening to chill out.

On my days at home, it used to be like an hour of TV, but since I've been pregnant there have been some very Mickey and Dora heavy days. On extra barfy days we would have "picnic lunch" where she could watch a show while she ate lunch. This is survival mode!

totally depends on the day/week. Sometimes she will go days without any, and sometimes she gets way too much a day. She watches lots of songs/counting/colour things on youtube, and she's learned a lot from it. I think in that sense it's fine. I don't particularly like when she sits in front of the tv and just watches a show like peppa or paw patrol where it's not all that educational. Somedays we just gotta do what we gotta do to get through though haha.

I voted none, but that's not accurate. We got rid of our TV exactly for this reason so now they don't get any during the week. On weekends maybe an hour total? That's divided between skyping with grandparents, and either one show or one short session of games on our phone/tablet. We just always see worse behavior if they get more so it's better for us to avoid altogether.

@Ajsmommy: We're at 2 hours a day during the winter too, and I don't feel any mommy guilt about it. We spend most of the day actively playing, she has a ton of time where she is using her executive function and inventing play, and then at the end of the day we all chill out. It mirrors my own mixture of active and passive recreation, which I feel really comfortable with.

I still prefer the summer evenings where we're active in the evening, just because I would always rather chill out by walking around the neighborhood or bbqing on the patio. But we just can't do that in the winter.