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Xander's only 15 months, so I'm probably not a good judge of what's to come, but so far we've avoided screen time. BUT he's in daycare full time, so during the week, it's totally easy to not do screen time. And then on weekends, I'm usually pretty happy to play with him or go do stuff since I haven't seen him all week.

But we'll see how I feel when I'm further along in this pregnancy and/or the baby comes along! I suspect screen time might start creeping in when I need to be nursing and stuff!

Meh. I am 35 weeks pregnant and am exhausted a lot of the time and at this point, if it takes some screen time to keep my son's attention enough for me to have time to sit down and get much needed rest for a half hour, I'm not going to feel bad!

We try to keep it to a bare minimum but some days are survival mode and I think it's better to be realistic than to feel too guilty.

We've done well so far and she hasn't had any. I think it will be a challenge for us as a family when football season rolls around and we have to sacrifice watching games with our friends. This past season she wasn't interested, and we just took turns playing with her in the other room- now that she is a toddler I have a feeling that won't work as well.

We are no screentime dropouts. It was difficult because I was 100% in the no screentime camp - by myself. Grandma, Nana, DH, everyone else in the world .... did not agree with me.

We also live in a small apartment, and pretty much live in the living room, which contains a big screen tv. The tv is on all the time, but LO ignores it mostly. Although at 13 months he does notice anytime a dog comes on the screen, and he occasionally dances to music he hears. Most of his screen time has actually been through ipads and cell phones. I don't mind it, because it's usually interactive, him swiping through pictures, an interactive storybook on the ipad, etc.

I can't control my mom or my MIL when they watch him a few days a week, and I can't control my DH when it is his time alone with LO. It wasn't a battle worth fighting. LO is not addicted to TV, doesn't even have a favorite show, he still loves books, and he's developing just fine.

Really great but the kids go to daycare and don't watch TV there or at home during the week. LO 1 is two and watches maybe 15-30 minutes every weekend. We also let her watch Frozen (it took a few days to finish) on our recent vacation week.

Screen time rules will be on hold during the World Cup!

Doing well, but like others have said, it's not hard when you WOH. All bets are off with the 14 hour flight we have coming up, though.

generally, she only watches in the morning while we're trying to get ready for work. Otherwise, after daycare, it's play time, dinner time, bath time and bed. The weekends are usually pretty jam packed so she doesn't get too much screen time unless it's an unusually slow weekend. But if at any point, one of us is sick, has a huge work load or needs "an extra pair of hands" .... we whip out the ipad.

Well... we are so/so. She's in daycare all day so no TV then, and we've only actually sat her down in front of the TV a couple times (when we were both sick and miserable), so I mean, she doesn't actually *watch* TV, but it's definitely on a LOT on the weekend as background noise.

We are definitely in the low screentime camp, philisophically. But I can't get this kid to watch a show for the life of me! I'm in my first tri of my second pregnancy, my LO is 16 months old, and sometimes mama just needs a break to lie on the couch and snooze. Maybe I haven't found the right show (we've only tried Daniel Tiger and Dinosaur Train), but he will only watch for 5 minutes. Which, I mean, I'm happy about, I guess. But also sad. Ha.

@rattles: I think kids have had lots of practice if they are sitting still that long! Blows my mind too.

Going strong at 18m. We watched 3 minutes of a frozen music video on my phone this week when I had the stomach flu and it was so nice for the snuggles. Makes me excited for curling up and watching a movie when he is older!

My 3 year old gets 1 show when he wakes up and 1 show after nap ( so a little less than an hour). Not sure if that's a lot or a little, but it's what works for us. My 14 month old will sometimes watch then, but not for the whole show. The only time I ever specifically put on a show for my young toddler was during illnesses.

We have no tv and it's great!

It's on at daycare sometimes (Fridays in the afternoon) but she still isn't very interested in it! She will watch a teeny bit of baseball but then she's interested in other things. I keep trying to get her a LITTLE interested for our upcoming flight to Mexico! Gah.

LO only gets screentime when we are at restaurants and she gets too out of control/occasionally in the car to avoid car naps (even a 5 minute nap can ruin her sleep for the rest of the day). Both of those happen maybe 4-5 times/ month, usually for 20-30 minutes. She's at home with the nanny during the day, but in and out for classes, parks, play groups, etc. and gets no screentime. I think we are doing pretty good (LO is 16 months).

@allison: same here! We try to avoid it, which isn't that hard since our tv is in the basement. But occasionally I just wanted him to SIT this winter - especially when I was in my first tri and he had croup and RSV. So we would try tv shows. Didn't work too well. But he will watch animal shows a little better, like Jack Hanna or the Dog Whisperer.

To be fair, we FaceTime with family almost once a day.

We're pretty good with it. I'm a SAHM so we're home a lot during the day but we just don't really have the tv on much other than first thing in the morning and early evening to catch up on the news. I prefer to have audiobooks on when we're home (we're working our way through Harry Potter) but even when I do have the tv on, DD1 still shows no interest at 23 months old.

I won't lie, I was trying to get her into watching a program or two in preparation for our long, long flights from Australia to the US, hoping she would watch something on the iPad whilst on the plane, but she just has zero interest in watching anything. We do use the iPad on occasion for an interactive game or two, but she only went through a brief phase of being into it and now she's over the iPad too. She prefers reading books to any other activity....who am I complain?!

i've become more relaxed about it in recent months. Especially since learning about what types of screentime is the worst and that an excessive amount is what is likely to have a negative impact. So with that in mind, i think we do quite well. LO never sits down and watches TV, but sometimes he gets hold of our iphones and we don't take it back right away. All he does is push the buttons and sometimes flips through pictures.

I also don't count Skype as screen time - he skypes with his grandparents several times a week and with myself at lunchtime when i am at work.

I have had to accept for a month and a half this summer that while my mom is watching him full time for us, she has the TV on the background sometimes. I can't argue with her about it when she is doing us such a huge favor. He doesn't sit and watch it though and it is not on all day long.

Long road trips are a definite exception to my screen rule, but even them he doesn't watch something for 6 hpurs straight, i just use my iphone as a distraction.

M has never had any screen time, so she doesn't know what she's missing. We let our older daughter have an hour on non school nights only.

We do pretty well, but I usually have it on to watch some news in the morning so I have some connection to the outside world, but I try to keep it off after breakfast and turn music on. He has also seen a lot of Oklahoma State football and CrossFit Games. I have also decided it is important for him to see Jamie Oliver's 15 Minute Meals so he can learn how to cook. We have never actually turned the TV on to a kid's show for him to watch and he doesn't have much interest in it when it is on.

Some days I do feel guilty because I thought it would be easier to do zero screen time, but I try not to worry about it since it is minimal.