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<blockquote data-quote="Babbs" data-source="post: 291173" data-attributes="member: 3820"><p>Huzzah for sticking to your guns! I only wish more parents would do what you have done.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I strickly limit all monitor time - computer time, Wii time, TV time are all high interest and motivational activities even after 3 years on a token economy and difficult child has to buy 30 minutes at a time with a limit of no more than 1 hour a day during the week and 3 hours a day during weekends. I'm very strict about what difficult child watches and interacts with - e.g. all Wii games are rated E, all computer video games are educational, and nothing on TV or movies that's over PG (difficult child is 8 yrs old). Ex has been exposing difficult child to PG 13 and R rated movies since the age of 3 (ack!!) and used to park difficult child in front of the TV as a toddler so that ex could play computer games unhindered when I wasn't around. The research has shown that monitor time significantly hinders early language development and we're teaching our kids to have immediate gratification and pre-programming brains for visual and auditory quick paced stimulation. And the ratings exist for a reason - I just don't understand people who think that it's okay to expose 4 year olds to PG 13 movies filled with violent action - kids that age are just not cognitively mature enough to understand the difference between reality and fantasy and how imitation of what they see on the screen has significant consequences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babbs, post: 291173, member: 3820"] Huzzah for sticking to your guns! I only wish more parents would do what you have done. Personally, I strickly limit all monitor time - computer time, Wii time, TV time are all high interest and motivational activities even after 3 years on a token economy and difficult child has to buy 30 minutes at a time with a limit of no more than 1 hour a day during the week and 3 hours a day during weekends. I'm very strict about what difficult child watches and interacts with - e.g. all Wii games are rated E, all computer video games are educational, and nothing on TV or movies that's over PG (difficult child is 8 yrs old). Ex has been exposing difficult child to PG 13 and R rated movies since the age of 3 (ack!!) and used to park difficult child in front of the TV as a toddler so that ex could play computer games unhindered when I wasn't around. The research has shown that monitor time significantly hinders early language development and we're teaching our kids to have immediate gratification and pre-programming brains for visual and auditory quick paced stimulation. And the ratings exist for a reason - I just don't understand people who think that it's okay to expose 4 year olds to PG 13 movies filled with violent action - kids that age are just not cognitively mature enough to understand the difference between reality and fantasy and how imitation of what they see on the screen has significant consequences. [/QUOTE]
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