At first I thought these are going to be the worst seven days of my life. As a work from home mom it's easy and sometimes necessary to put on a movie or give her a little computer time when I need to make an important call or finish a report. This week that wasn't going to be an option, I may have been a little bit panicked.
Saturday and Sunday of no screen time went by pleasantly as did Monday afternoon. Here it is Tuesday and I'm trying to think of reasons to never give her screen time back although I know that isn't possible in this day and age. I don't want to have a technology illiterate child but the wonderful changes in her since loss of screen time still have me scheming.
Her attitude is a lot less snotty, she picks up her dirty clothes and takes them to the laundry without being reminded, she's much quieter, she's asleep by 8:30 and when she wakes up between 7:30 and 8 she grabs her OJ from the fridge and heads off to her room to play by herself. The list continues with very little talking back, listening when told to do something without having to be yelled at, and even eating better. I'm sure if I sat here and thought about it long enough I could come up with more.
Well I love technology I think sometimes it's to much for all of us. So in the 3 sleeps left before screen time returns I'm going to be setting up some screen time limitations. I like hanging out with this screen free kid, something I wouldn't have told you on Friday evening.
Kelli
I set limitations for myself. Being screen-free is very liberating.
ReplyDeleteI've seen another post that had similar results when her child was grounded from screens. It's really interesting and a little scary that their behavior would change so much! Ryan and I have talked about this a little bit, but he basically grew up playing video games all the time and I had limits on my TV time, so I'm sure we won't see eye to eye on what to do for our kids one day.
ReplyDeleteScreen free is such a good idea!! It really does stress us out more than it helps on some days!!
ReplyDeleteGood for you for staying strong in no screen time for her. (She must have been CRAZY misbehaved to deserve that!) My son would be CONSTANTLY asking me for screen time if I had taken it away from him for a day even. I'm glad K is complying and is a better behaved kid for it. Definitely kids learn to (surprisingly) entertain themselves without a screen doing it for them. The other day, J was playing cars all by himself when I said no screen time until x o'lock. It was so nice to see!
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