Saturday, September 3, 2016

Saturday: Free media day

Today we did something new.  We let the boys have as much screen time as they wanted.  Well, almost.  Quiet time was screen free and we didn't watch TV while eating like normal.

I told Isaac yesterday afternoon, but he was thinking about something else and it must have gone in one ear and out the other.  Ben told him again in the evening and he was super excited...which is what I had been expecting to happen.

The main reason we did it was because of the WoW expansion, and Ben and I wanted to play a bit more.  But it is also fun to do something different.


Joshua only did ok with the whole concept.  He did have several times where he would watch something, but he didn't play the IPad at all.  While I was hoping he'd do a bit more, it didn't really surprise me at all.  And it was probably a good thing.


Isaac wanted to be on his robot quilt.  He took his shirt off mid morning "to be more comfortable" and it never got back on.  To be fair, Joshua didn't get pants on for the whole day either.  Isaac hung out on the laptop and loved it.  Nickjr.com ended up being the best place for him.  We stopped by PBSKids.org for a short time, but the game or two that he looked at didn't catch his interest.  I was a bit surprised that he had such an easy time with the mouse.  I know that he can use it a bit, but he really did a pretty good job with it.  (Nickjr gave good verbal instructions.  So we had to help him a few times, especially when he pushed the wrong mouse button, but for the most part he could navigate himself.)

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