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Screen arguments are really a rule problem: when the limit changes with your mood, children learn to negotiate instead of switch off. The calculator gives you an age-based starting budget for leisure screens, and the family rules below make it stick - without the daily battle.
Screen time arguments, ended — a screen-time budget for your child's age plus the family rules that make it stick without daily warfare.
Mainstream guidance suggests under 18-24 months: avoid screens except video-chat, and at 2-5 years aim for around an hour a day of high-quality, co-viewed content. The exact minutes matter less than protecting sleep, movement and real conversation.
Quality content is better than junk, but a screen is still a screen - it is sedentary, solitary and stimulating. The best 'educational screen time' for young children is you, talking about what they watched. Balance beats classification.
Make it a clock rule, not a mood rule: screens off at a fixed time, an hour before bed, with devices charging outside bedrooms overnight. When the rule is the clock's fault, nobody has to be the bad guy.
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