My 6 and 8yo are literally setting alarms to wake up early and beg me for Switch time before school. I've started hiding the controllers but they keep finding them. The actual gaming time is limited but this obsession with it is out of control. Wife thinks I introduced it too early. Feeling pretty guilty honestly. Did I mess up bringing it into the house?
Man, hiding controllers is just playing whack-a-mole at that point. We had to set hard screen time limits and actually stick to them, no exceptions. Now my kids know the Switch doesn't turn on until after dinner and they stopped asking. Took like two weeks of pushback but it worked.
5am is brutal. Have you tried burning that energy off earlier in the day? We got a zoo membership and the kids are so tired after we go that they actually sleep in. Plus way cheaper than I thought and way better than screen time battles.
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That's rough. The basement finished project was partly about giving mine an alternative place to hang out that isn't just screens. Might be worth finding some other activity they can do early that's actually fun? Something that doesn't require you to be a referee at dawn.