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Sheila Crook-Lockwood's avatar

Thankfully, my kids are all adults so tech was not as available when they were growing up. I didn't even have video games in the house. They had to go outside to play! They learned quickly never to say "I'm bored." "I'm bored" resulted in washing windows, pulling weeds, etc. My mantra was "It is my job to raise children who can take care of themselves and be used by God to care for others."

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Kendra Anderson's avatar

Thanks for this! We were talking about this today and comes up often. I am a mean mom, my baby, 18 in a month gets four hrs per day of any social media. She can ask for more and I admit I suck at it. Your plan seems amazing and I just shared it multiple people. Youngest has zero self control and I feel like a failure when it comes to her screen time. She was active outside growing up but addicted to her form of heroin in the form of iPad, laptop, tv, any chance she could get. To this day I have password on my laptop and iPad. I actually “misplaced” an ipad hiding it from her! These kids are truly lost and I feel sorry for them that they won’t get to live the life we did before screens.

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