Screentime
Phoebe has slept at our house for the past four nights and she is asleep in her cot right now for the fifth night in a row. Her mum has also slept over through the weekend. Phoebe's daddy - Stewart - will be back from France tomorrow afternoon so mummy and daughter's little holiday is almost over. I guess that most western families face the dilemma of screen-time for little children. Should they have any screentime at all? How should it be rationed? What should they be watching? Does screen-time cause any harm? Phoebe has two little cousins residing in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. They are called Alexander and Florence - never shortened - and for them watching screens is absolutely forbidden. That seems quite harsh but who knows what the best way forward is? Certainly not me - but what I do know is that screens are not going away and they will feature in every child's life as they move into the future. It was different for me and my generation. Many of ...
