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Never and always? lol. My LO is 16 mo and she doesn't ever get personal screen time. As in-- kid shows/videos. I did try once a few months ago when she was sick but she doesn't care to watch, she's got toddler places to be and toddler stuff to do and she can't be bothered. At the same time, I binge watch netflix all the time when she is in the room and I'm not concerned about it. She never seems to watch or notice except she likes the music at the start/end of shows and she'll do a little dance (which I find hilarious).

I feel like you just do what works for you/your kid and don't worry about it

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Logan doesn't purposely get screen time, but Xander does and Logan ends up watching it... oops.

Well, R is almost 10 months and has had plenty because his brother gets to watch a show or two a day. He didn't used to care about it....but now when Team Umi Zumi comes on (even if he hears it from another room) he speed crawls in and starts clapping and laughing. It doesn't hold his attention but he definitely thinks TV is fun!

@snowjewelz: Yeah, I think if she's getting too into it, you might need to dial it down. Logan definitely is intrigued by Xander's shows, but when we turn it off, he doesn't care.

No screen time just for LO 1 until 2 but we watched sports around her during the olympics and football season. I think it was around 20ish months for LO 2..we let LO 1 watch some stuff during baby sister's naps.

DD - we were pretty good about waiting until 2. She got a few Youtube vids here and there, and FaceTime, but it was nowhere near a regular thing until after she was 2. Now at 3, she gets some shows and educational apps. People have always commented about her being verbally advanced and articulate and I attributed that to lots of interaction and no screen time... BUT...

DS started getting some screen time at about 15 mo? And I think he's on par with DD in terms of his speech development, so I'm okay with it all. He's 18 mo now and has a wide vocab and can string words together so while I feel guilty about the shows/apps at times, overall I'm at peace with it!

They still don't get any screen time on weekdays, though I think this will change once Baby 3 comes along and I drop them to part-time daycare.

Screen time as in her shows is practicly zero, but we have the news on in the morning and DH will have football on Sundays , she will glance at it, but isn't to into it.

Screen time for LO specifically started when LO was about 18 months when i was super sick from my second pregnancy. At that point she started watching 1-2 kid shows a day. After I felt better I cut it down to just occasionally.

Now at age 2, we end up letting her play apps or watch a show about every other day.

DS is 27 months and has never watched tv except verrrry rarely if there is something on in the background (hockey). We basically never watch TV.

We almost never turn on the TV at home, and definitely not when our 18mo is around/awake. The only TV exposure he gets is when we are in public (e.g., at a restaurant with a tv). He does occasionally look at photos or watch videos of himself on my phone, and his grandparents let him play with their iPhones but he mostly just pretends that he's making a phone call.

I have shown him other videos on youtube a couple of times. Once he saw a violin in one of his books and got really interested in the word, so I showed him a video of a violin performance. Another time we were talking about airplanes so I found a video of takeoffs and landings.

That's about it. I find tv annoying, especially the commercials, so I'm happy to just leave it off. I think we got rid of most of our cable awhile ago. My husband handled it and I'm not sure of the details. We don't watch sports on tv except for the Olympics. So I guess we will need to decide whether or not to share that with our son next year, or limit our viewing to times when he is asleep.