How I Teach My Kids to Balance Their Screen Time
We've all been there. The kids have a week off from school and they expect to spend the whole week playing video games and watching shows and Youtube. That was the dilemma I was facing as Fall Break approached this year. I knew there was no way to take away their electronics without a fight. I am so tired of fighting that battle. So I stopped to think, what am I really trying to achieve when I limit or take away screen time from my kids? Balance. The simple answer was balance. It's not that I don't want my kids to use electronics. I know the value that being technologically savvy will have in their lives. What I want is for them to balance out how they spend their time. That means I am not the one planning out every minute of the day. For me, it also means I don't have to tell them what to do or when to do it. I've seen blogs about making a list of things they must to do before using their devices....