parenting question

[flea]

Allowing your 5 year old to watch 2+ hours of TV after she gets home from all-day activities that involve new people and/or physical extertion: allowing a necessary brain- and body- rest, mindless vegging of the sort that many adults enjoy, or allowing child to get away with murder while justifying my own laziness about not making her do other stuff?

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I never restricted TV and my two grew up fine. That's anecdata, of course.

But vegging in exhaustion seems reasonable to me, and as you say, adults do it all the time.