We always talk about kid screen time. What's your screen time, total, including checking email, Facebook, etc.
I watch 3-5 hours of TV a week. Computer-tablet time is probably about 15-20 hours a week, depending on how much research I'm doing, etc. Lately it's been more like 5-10.
I pay the electric and cable bills, so I am entitled to as much screen time as I want. I don't track it.
Oh boy...I'm on my computer from at least 9-5 for work, usually longer. I'm doing a month-long detox and one of the habits I'm trying to work on is no screen time after 7 PM. Yikes! I think that means just tablets/phones/computers because the light messes with your body's ability to sleep. Not sure if it means TV too. I haven't been able to do that, but I have been able to get to bed by 11 PM for several nights in a row, which in and of itself is a miracle.
Anyway...with my minimum work day, checking e-mail and FB before work, working late-ish almost daily (until 6 PM normally) that's easily 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Then normally another 3-5 hours later at night (sometimes work, sometimes PTA stuff, sometimes goofing off, or doing finances, updating calendars, meal planning, sometimes reading a book on my tablet). Plus checking my phone when I'm out and about...having my phone or laptop or tablet open for notes at meetings...carrying my phone on weekends...using my phone to track fitness activity...I would say 70 - 80 hours a week? Crazy, right?
Oh and TV...hmmm...I watch maybe 5-10 hours a week - Downton Abbey, The Good Wife, Criminal Minds, The Daily Show, Scandal...Modern Family re-runs with my kids, the occasional movie or football or hockey game, etc.
Hah! My kids bring this up all the time. Do as I say-not as I do!
I'm an online Bachelors degree student, I pay my bills online, read the news online etc. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I still get a lot of screen time.
I don't see it as a big deal. They see that I try to get it done early so that we can have family time in the evenings.
40 hrs a week for work. DS has a gabba gabba or a jake on in the morning or the evening. We watch about 40 minutes of something on netflix 4+ nights a week. It's a lot.
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I don't keep track of mine. We run our company from home so it is not uncommon to be working 24/7 and have the laptop in front of me. I have to be around when a trucker needs approval to load, unload, get necessary paperwork, etc when we have material being moved all over the US. On top of that, I do all the travel and financials for the company.
SO, I am in my office in front of my laptop A LOT listening to Pandora as I work. Of course, I take breaks to come to MP and FB.
2-4 hours of TV a week, at the most. Probably 20+ of laptop time.
I watch about an hour of TV at night before I go to sleep. I will also watch TV while I fold laundry, so maybe another couple of hours a week. On the weekends I usually watch a movie in the evening if I am home. My computer is on all of the time, and I check email, facebook and mamapedia periodically throughout the day. I dont keep track, but 15 minutes here and 20 minutes there probably add up to another hour or two a day! I am not counting the time spent doing actual work on the computer, such as writing reports and paying bills.
I work 36-44 hours per week and am on a computer during most of that time. Then at home a little bit. But I rarely watch TV. I'm normally on the go with the kids...so to sit down and actually watch something is rare.
I might watch an hour of TV a week, mainly while cleaning up. I wouldn't even have the TV on if it weren't for the rest of the fam. For computer, 3-4 hours a day since I am job hunting.
I watch TV whenever I want. I can cook and watch DVR. I don't work during the day, all my jobs are in the evening or I do them after the kids go to bed. So I can pretty much watch anything I want.
When I'm doing a customer's laundry or ironing I set the ironing board up in the kitchen where I can see the TV in the den. This way I can do 2 things at once, I also fold their clothes out of the dryer on that love seat.
I found that some shows are not for kiddo's of course. I used to watch Gray's Anatomy until the shower scene. Kiddo walked in on that one so off it went. That's a risk you take. I watch other shows in the evening and watch the more mature shows when no one else might walk in.
