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Screen time at 18 months - your real rules?

Officially WHO says no screens under 2. Practically? With travel, sickness, dinner being cooked? What do you actually do?

5 Replies

silvery-tamarin 1/28/2026

About 30 min/day on average. Maybe more on travel days. Honest.

swift-lorikeet 1/28/2026

Quality matters more than quantity I think. Sat with them, talking about what they see is different to alone-time.

lovely-penguin 1/28/2026

Don't beat yourself up. Cooking dinner with a clingy toddler is impossible otherwise.

wiggly-hamster 1/30/2026

Zero until 2 was our rule. Held til 2.5 then lost the battle to grandparents.

swift-ibis 2/3/2026

Ms Rachel was our gateway drug. No regrets.