What’s Really Going On: Why Screens Never Satisfy Kids | Dr. Becky

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• EL

  @Ellie-bu7yf · 5 months ago (edited)

  I bought a house for 20 000 euros in rural France. There are 10 kids in the village, beautiful little school which is against screens during the school day and believes in human connexion, kids are always outside once they are out of school, wednesdays are off school so she plays outside with her friends and go to judo/ ballet/ swimming. I only have a TV and she always asks before using the tablet as she knows we need to do it toguether if she wants to watch something. The other kids are not on tablets either so it is way easier. Highly recommend our radical change in lifestyle. I don't work much ( only when she is at school) as the mortgage is so low so I have time for her. If you speak French ( even a bit) just go for it....At the end of the day she will be bilingual, get a fabulous free education, we get free healthcare/ dental care and she can still apply to anglophone unis if she fancies the rat race. What is not to like? At least a childhood/ teenage years protected from all this bullshit will serve her well. If you speak French ( even just a bit) go for it!!

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• VI

  @VitalityHolisticHW · 5 months ago

  I’m new here. Thank you so much for this episode and sharing this book!

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• DO

  @donaldpratt2296 · 5 months ago

  I don’t look forward to the day when my daughter is seeing all of her friends use tablets all the time. Our screen use system has worked well for us, but the exterior pressure hasn’t really begun yet.

• BL

  @Bluecollarworker · 5 months ago (edited)

  My 2 kids was using a kindle for a while. very little parent supervision on there even though there is a kids profile. youtube on there is the biggest problem. so we got ipads. alot more parental supervision is allowed on them. youtube kids is on there and is not like regular youtube. youtube kids is much better for under 12 imo. we choose the games they can have on there and even turn the wifi off via our phones when they dont listen. we schedule certain apps they can use freely and other apps/games are allowed for minutes a day due to their content. you must keep your kids monitored while using the internet. if you see them going off the rails when not getting their "fix" then the device and parental supervision is the issue and its time to remove the cause imo. regardless what the kid says, dont give under 15 freedom on regular youtube or any social media!!! Since getting the ipad and using more adult supervision that it gives our kids are on there less. and what they are doing on there is mostly all educational games. We feel like we have our kids back and they are just playing games on a console.