{"id":497,"date":"2019-01-17T06:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/45.145.53.191\/?p=497"},"modified":"2019-01-17T06:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T06:53:03","slug":"six-alternatives-to-screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stylewithkitty.com\/2019\/01\/17\/six-alternatives-to-screen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Alternatives to Screen Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey Mamas! Todays post is all about making sure you don’t feel guilty about screen time for your kids but to find different avenues of entertainment for your sweet peas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a stay at home mom I\u2019m literally multitasking all day from making sure my 2 year old that\u2019s climbing all over doesn\u2019t fall off something or my inquisitive 3 year old doesn\u2019t do anything wild for the millisecond that I turn away to catch my breath. From the moment they wake up to the moment they sleep (and most nights even after they sleep) I\u2019m constantly alert with them and through the day I\u2019m also working my way through cooking, cleaning, loads of laundry, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my first born arrived I was the new mom that said to myself no screen time for my kids. And then our Rayyan\u2019s Asthma was diagnosed at about 5 to 6 months of age and we had to give him inhalers to help control his asthma twice a day. Now you try to give a six month old an inhaler with a spacer. He would scream and fight it. To see him go through that was awful I couldn\u2019t force the inhaler and spacer on his face. So I resorted to playing it\u2019s-bitsy spider on my phone one day after he put up a good fight and refused to take the inhaler. I promised myself for those 5 min twice a day it was okay just so we could get through this inhaler. And then one morning he was fussy and I figured just 15 min of nursery rhymes on TV are okay until I finish doing my makeup. Those 15 min lead to 30 min just so I could get food up on the stove and so on and so forth; you see where I\u2019m going with this?! Ultimately it became an avenue for me to get a couple minutes of sanity just so I could get a few minutes to get my stuff done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I could go on and state all these statistics about the harmful effects screen time has on children; but most of us I assume already know that, so instead I\u2019ll share some things I do with my boys to keep them entertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now it\u2019s definitely become a little (emphasis on little) easier now that they are 3 and 2. While they are still within my eyes range and I can keep an eye on them I provide them with a lot of projects and crafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n