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RE: Adventures in Parenting, take the lightsout challenge!
My sister has kids of 7 and 9. She banned all screens for a few weeks last year, including the TV! She says the kids just played more with toys etc. It's slipped now and they are back to their tablets. They are the true screenagers.
I thought with Alexa you had a chance to revert an order by end of day. Maybe they just didn't check. I have a Dot, but not Prime, so we can't order with it. I just don't need that facility.
Right, so the point here isn't to be a luddite or revert to the stoneage. I'm not saying to ban electronics from your home. There are good, compelling reasons to let your child have these things too. Just not 24/7
With the challenge I'm saying, simply take a day, shut down all the distractions and focus solely on being a family. Talk, color, play, sing whatever from the time you get off work until bedtime. Just turn it all off, then tell us how it went the next day!
Thanks for the excellent comment. I'm not comfortable with livestreaming my home to Amazon, so we won't be getting one of these any time soon. But we do have all the other trappings of modern life.
My kids are teenagers now, so they mostly grew up without these devices. We had a PC in the house, but that was a treat. I think things have really changed in the last few years and now just about everyone expects to be on-line all the time, including kids. We haven't adjusted to it yet