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Totally "screen-free" environment?

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I had breakfast with a friend this morning.  She was telling me about something said by another friend of ours, who is pregnant and due in April.  (I swear she wasn't gossiping - she was honestly asking my opinion on a kid issue because she doesn't have any!  I, however, am straight-up gossiping now.)

Anyway, the pregnant friend said she and her husband are committing to a totally screen-free house when the baby is born.  They are putting away their TVs and she is getting rid of her cell phone.  They had a land line installed.  Her husband will need his phone for work, but she wants him to put it in a box when he is home.

Personally, I think this is a little overboard.  We try not to have the TV on when Charlotte is awake, but we do use it to play music on Pandora.  She doesn't play with our electronic devices, but I frequently use my phone or iPad when she is around.  When she was little, I would have gone nuts without my phone or e-reader to keep me company during the hours I spent in her nursery helping her sleep!!

I think this future mom will eventually realize that there is a middle ground.

Anyone on here have a completely "screen-free environment" for your baby?  What led you to make that decision? 

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  • CLeigh03CLeigh03 member
    I personally would die. But that's just me.
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    We're 80 percent. I don't turn on the tv when he's awake. I try to keep my phone away from him and don't get on the computer when he's awake. But I don't care if he sees it when we are out.
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  • ashS10309ashS10309
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  • CrossingfingersCrossingfingers member
    Right now I'm on the iPad nursing Carson to sleep. My older kids are playing just dance on the wii, and after lunch we are going to the movies to see the Croods. I could not function without screens. But that being said, we have also done finger painting
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  • bigbootyjudibigbootyjudi member

    Yea, count me out. I'm home alone with DS all day...I need to feel like I'm part of the outside world, just a little bit.

    I think MoFree is screen-free though. I don't know if she's as locked down about it as getting rid of her cellphone and wha

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  • abbyfulabbyful member

    We started out that way.... didn't last long.

    Now DS watches TV with us a couple times a week. Sometimes he's asleep, if he's awake I'm playing with him, so it's not like he's completely zoned-out staring at it, we're still interacting with him i

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    When ODD was five she could already work a mouse on a computer, and both girls loved practiced writing their letters on their Leapfrogs. Honestly, I was against getting anything like that, but they were gifts from Grandma and Grandpa...

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  • MegispregMegispreg member

    Not having a cell seems more risky to me than the baby having some occasional screen time. What if her car breaks down or something?

    DD does not watch TV yet, but banning it completely from your home sounds a little overboard.  

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  • sosophsosoph member

    Well, there are two different issues there. One is screen time for the kid, because it affects how the brain develops cognitively. It's not uncommon to hear of kids not watching screens until they're 2. The second issue is the parents on screen time, n

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  • acire86acire86 member
    Not gonna happen in my house. I dont have tv on all the time but DF likes to unwind with tv after work.
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  • LindsayDesignerLindsayDesigner member
    We FaceTime with my sister and her kids and occasionally Mina will watch TV with us but its rare. I don't really watch a whole lot of TV anyway so I watch when she is asleep.
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  • AndreabksAndreabks member
    I have the TV on nearly all day as a stahm, but i'm trying to be better about leaving it on a music chanel.  she doesn't watch it anyway, she'd rather play with her toys.  if i don't have some kind of background noise going on i loose track of t
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  • mollyxcatemollyxcate member

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    I personally would die. But that's just me.

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  • AutumnLeaves2AutumnLeaves2 member
    We could never be screen free. I honestly didn't really think too much of having the TV on or being on my phone until I came on the bump and saw all of the debates about it.
    Right now we're watching netflix, snuggled in bed. DD is playing with her
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