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

[hecubot.livejournal.com]

I think Emmett's tv diet at that age was something like half hour in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening.

Kid's need to unwind too, and also have some entertainment. As long as they're physically active, and reading and engaging with people I don't think that's deleterious.

Also, with two kids under six and both parents working, you need some downtime yourself. I would not characterize you as lazy.