#askparents — Public Fediverse posts

Anyone heard about, tried, have opinions (founded or un-) on cold-turkey zero screentime for you kids?
My partner sent me this interview with Dr Victoria Dunkley advocating for a total screen detox for a solid month.

What do you think?

https://drdunckley.com/reset-your-childs-brain/

#bookstodon #askParents #childPsychology #parenting #fediDads

Seems like YPM is saying that because kids see violence, they need to first imitate it to understand and gain control of it.

"children bring to play what they need to work on." We parents need to recognize and support them.

The guest wrote The War Play Dilemma.
Anyone read it? #askParents

Your #Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas to help kids thrive: 029: Why we shouldn’t ban war play

#Podcast #Episode webpage: https://yourparentingmojo.com/warplay

Media file: https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e2d84b59-7f07-41b0-bcde-963e5e437ff3/playing-with-guns.mp3

Has anyone considered the Wisephone for your kids?
#askParents #parenting #fediDads
https://wisephone.com/products/wisephone-ii

Help I'm crashing and can't think.
Is feeding my kids tuna quesadillas the worst idea I've ever had, or a decent shot at the best probability they'll eat (roughly 50% regardless)?
Must feed children before cognitive system failure.
#askParents #parenting

Our daughter is putting a presentation for me @SallyChamness to ask us for access to Discord and a few channels with her gamer friends. What kind of things should we be thinking about as #parents? I believe that we're pretty savvy with these things but always having some outside input will give us other considerations #AskMastodon #AskFedi #AskParents