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Don't discount the learning/problem solving that is going on while our kids play video games. I can't think of anything else t...

Years back, a group of families traded babysitting. Kirby had a favorite family to visit, where there were several kids who knew an...

In 2012, I responded to a mom's frustration about how to limit, or not, TV and computer use. There are many benefits to letti...

We didn't have problems with our unlimited turns, but it's because nobody ever played longer than he really wanted to just to ke...

a mom wrote: Having the television on all day is not something I want and I live here too. Sandra Dodd's response: We don't ...

This was written about the Dodd kids and their questions about U.S. Presidents, in 2003. Click the link at the bottom for what came...

Problem: My son spends a lot of his time playing video games. I have accepted that this is his passion... and maybe very well play a ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: The first step is finding something that's better than what you have. The second step is wanting to chang...

If someone knew almost nothing in the world but trivia relating to popular music for the past 100 years, that would make a HELL of a goo...

Karen James wrote in 2012: My nine-year-old son ran into the kitchen yesterday while I was fixing a snack for us to take back to our g...

Playing a video game is not violent. Playing a game is sitting on a couch with a remote control. Shaming a kid who wants to sit on t...

Movies touch and show just about everything in the world. There are movies about history and movies that are history. There are mov...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: It would be very useful if parents stop using the term "screen time." It is insulting and adversarial....

Carol/sognokids wrote of recovering from snobishness about TV, concluding with: We had cable reinstalled the next day, and we never l...

Dominique Trussler wrote, years ago: This morning I brought my 8-year-old son a snack as he was busy playing on the computer, and he said ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: What gets in the way of so many new unschooling parents is unreasonable expectations. They think kids must le...

Don't worry about what kids choose to do. Make sure they have lots of choices, and don't discriminate between what you think m...

If an adult is using a television set, or a laptop computer, or a smartphone, and somebody asks them what they are doing they will say...

Kathy Ward had eight children, and was active in discussions years back. At first she rejected video games, but changed her mind....

Stephanie E. wrote: It came to me the other day that Jason is more engaged then if he were doing puzzles in a book or being read to. W...