Parenting Chat - 11/23 - 11/29

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Pretty sure my kid is the only one at her elementary school without unregulated internet access. We’ve locked down her DNS so only certain websites are available. Other parents just slap an iPad on their kids and let them go to town. I swear to god half the boys are going to be sucked into the manosphere by the time they’re in middle school. I don’t know what the other parents are thinking. Maybe they’ve never been so unfortunate as to have visited the dark corners of the web themselves but holy fuck.
- Yeah our kids do not have unlimited access to the internet. They don't even have limited access to a dedicated device. I have no idea how some parents can let the kids walk around with ipads. Whenever we go shopping i can't help but notice if a kid has access to a device.
  We watch a lot of TV though. But we go through phases. I think we're getting into a detox phase soon... We've been watching to much TV recently. The problem right now is the 2yo has a bad habit of waking up from anything from 2am to 5am and getting in bed. He rolls around like a top, kicking and pushing against me mostly. So we've been sleeping like shit. Being fucking exhausted makes screens really tempting.
  
  makes screens really tempting
  It's a very hard needle to thread. Short term gain (SILENCE), long term pain (insufferable behavioural issues).
  Because you know the SECOND that you end screen time they won't leave you alone or shut the fuck up.
  Not sure about a 2 yo, but when they're a bit older and in school we've found the sweet spot is 2 hr per day screen time on the weekend, 1 hr per day during the week for educational media only. Seems to hit just right. Not to mention keeping them in extra-curricular to keep them busy.
  Good luck. Sweet mother of god good luck.
  
  My two year old currently does the same thing! He also needs to be touching me with some random body part. So there is sometimes a foot on my face. Haha. It’s wild.
  Audio books help him settle down a little. Right now we are listening to the coco storyette by tammy trull. It has some clips from the movie itself so it keeps him interested.
  
  My local library has these picture books with a little audio book player module glued in them and they fucking rock. I have to snag a new one every visit lol
- It's wild, i don't let my kids play roblox, and we keep youtube kids to a minimum and other folks just seem to do w.e.

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