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We play video games most weekends with our 7 year old for about an hr - yoshi’s crafted world, mario kart & party, cook serve delicious, minecraft. It’s been super fun. We don’t let him have any unsupervised video game time and watch tv mostly as a family. Our two younger girls can also play but don’t seem to be all that interested yet.
Wow - you're pretty strict. Did your kids never watch "Sesame Street"? I had a client who was a widowed dad; he only let his son watch PBS, and "The Simpsons", so his son wouldn't feel left out among his friends.
When my kids started asking about this we got our old original Wii out of the closet and played Mario kart. It doesn’t really go online or play any other games so it’s pretty self limiting.
Sometimes they grumble about not having a switch but Wii Mario kart is the best one anyway.
We gave our 7 yr old a Nintendo switch oled for his b-day this year and no regrets so far. There's a parental account that you can add time limit a day, and it works like a charm. When the 30 mins are over, he knows it's done. If we are playing together/taking turns, then I manually edit for more. I bought it second half for half the price, totally worth it.
we have similar TV rules and we don't have video games. they haven't asked and my son, in particular, who's 8 tends to obsess over things and has a hard time with limits. maybe in a few more years for us.
I think video games at 7 are very appropriate and normal. I’d just make sure to set boundaries and build healthy gaming habits. I have fond memories of playing certain games with my dad at that age.
We have four kids and a Nintendo switch, we usually only play it together as a family; games like Mariokart. It’s super fun as a family activity
Nintendo has fun games (MarioKart, etc) that we allowed. Mine would binge play a few weekends a year when the weather was terrible. Many years later they play their favorites together when back home.
I’m the opposite - we have pretty free screen time but no video games. The connection to other (nameless/faceless) people makes me uncomfortable, and even if I trust my kid I don’t trust everyone else out there. My 8 year old son watches streamers play video games on the Happy Kids app, which has no connection to others, it’s just watching after the fact - but he doesn’t play the video games
It’s something you can use to punish or reward.
I grew up playing video games
(watching my older siblings play it too) and watching a ton of TV. Nothing too strict with our young kids, everything in moderation! We sit together with no entertainment during meals, book time, or clean up. They also play learning games on the tablet. They dont get anything depending on bad grades or bad activity. Outside of that we do video games and TV almost everyday
Going pretty good so far.
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