None. My 3 year old has a pretty screen-free (although not completely!) existence.

2. How many take-out restaurant numbers do you have programmed into your phone?

None. We live in the sticks. There are only 2 places that do take-out around here, and they are both pizza.

3. How many hours of television do you so totally not let your kids watch a week?

We don’t own a television. But we watch movies occasionally. Maybe my daughter watches at most 1 hour a week.

4. Do you think people who say “we don’t watch television” at play dates but really mean “we just watch DVDs” are lying liars from Liarville?

I don’t care. In my mind there IS a difference between watching television and watching specifically chosen, commercial-free media.

5. How many miles have you driven with your child and not one device of electronic entertainment in a single car trip?

300 miles.

6. What’s your record for calls to the pediatrician or Ask-a-Nurse in a single day?

Zero. I think we’ve called the doctor about our daughter maybe 3 times in her life.

7. What’s the sexiest thing your partner could text you after a hard day?

We don’t have cell phones, but he could say “I am taking Phoebe out to the library and dinner and you have the house to yourself” to me and I would just about die.

8. What’s your favorite iPad joke?

That is doesn’t do Flash.

9. What’s the dumbest parenting tool, gear, gadget or device you ever bought?

The second monitor to replace the first that broke after 3 years. I really didn’t need a monitor for a three year old.

10. How many years will it take for your child to become more tech-savvy than you?

Many. I’m a huge geek and she’s living a pretty Waldorf-y life so far.

*Ahem*
1. Our remotes, the portable handset for the house phone and my cell phone

2. We generally just do pizza but I haven’t programmed ANY numbers into our phone so our children don’t accidentally call anyone–see #1

3. Far too many hours a week–I don’t want to count it because then I would officially be a bad mother!! They watch tv everyday…no morning tv…I can’t count how many hours…

4. They are completely lying liars from Liarville–heck–they’re probably mayor and council members of Liarville

5. The only entertainment available in our car is the radio/cd player and we drove to my parents and back–3 hour drive each way–without the radio…this is before the 3rd child arrived–any electronic toys in the car would probably drive me crazy…

6. 2–my daughter was young and I had no idea what to do with her coughing and fever…

7. he could say “I’ll watch the kids for 2 hours and you can have a bath with no interruptions–and pizza for dinner”

8. what’s an iPad?
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time’s up–they’re both awake but i’ll try to finish

9. a peepee teepee–adorable but useless! also a stroller connector to connect two strollers instead of getting a double stroller–never figured it out…

10. my 3yo is getting there already–by the time she’s 6 I’m sure….

I love your blog–and because of you I’m teaching myself to knit–when I get a minute or two…(hint hint–I’d love a hat!!)

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I did it! Nadine is just calmly waiting for me and my baby, Max, is eating so I’m hunt and peck typing with one hand!
Happy 3-days after groundhog day!

In desperation I will allow them to use the iPod Touch, but only if they are sitting and not near any food or body of water.

2. How many take-out restaurant numbers do you have programmed into your phone?

Too many, since I still have the ones from our last residence, and we moved 1.5 yrs ago.

3. How many hours of television do you so totally not let your kids watch a week?

Bad week or good week? Bad week they veg on the weekend, good week they get about a half hour a day, we are plenty busy on other things.

4. Do you think people who say “we don’t watch television” at play dates but really mean “we just watch DVDs” are lying liars from Liarville?

Nah, it’s all about the definition of “TV” you see. Meh, do what you have to do to survive a play date, but I hope it’s not ALL video games and tv, cause that will make my kid kind of an a-hole afterwards.

5. How many miles have you driven with your child and not one device of electronic entertainment in a single car trip?

45. Anything more than that…refer back to maintaining your sanity

6. What’s your record for calls to the pediatrician or Ask-a-Nurse in a single day?

Two? Kid #2 had poison ivy near his eye.

7. What’s the sexiest thing your partner could text you after a hard day?

Kids are bathed and in bed and I have a hot dinner ready for you.

8. What’s your favorite iPad joke?

They’ve all been made, cause seriously, any women in that room when you picked that name, Apple? Didn’t think so.

9. What’s the dumbest parenting tool, gear, gadget or device you ever bought?

Baby sling. No offense to those who love them, but my kids never fit in them and I got a serious neck crick from it.

10. How many years will it take for your child to become more tech-savvy than you?

*sigh* I count that in months…

My DSi, but since it was technically free, it’s not really the most expensive. Other than that, I’d say the Wii. I’m not sure why they feel the need to put the microphone for American Idol IN their mouths.

2. How many take-out restaurant numbers do you have programmed into your phone?

None. That’s what the internet is for!

3. How many hours of television do you so totally not let your kids watch a week?

Way way too much. Probably 20-30 hours/week. Does it help to know that it’s mostly educational shows like Sesame Street, Cyberchase and Word Girl? No? I didn’t think so.

4. Do you think people who say “we don’t watch television” at play dates but really mean “we just watch DVDs” are lying liars from Liarville?

Our friends don’t watch TV at playgroup simply because the kids generally have too much other stuff to do, like exploring someone else’s toys.

5. How many miles have you driven with your child and not one device of electronic entertainment in a single car trip?

~150 miles, but he was a baby so I’m not sure that counts. Otherwise, we do employ the Leapster. We’ve never used a DVD player in the car. That’s what windows are for.
/Get off my lawn!

6. What’s your record for calls to the pediatrician or Ask-a-Nurse in a single day?

Probably not more than two. Particularly when there was some doubt on our part as to whether our puking/pooping baby was technically dehydrated. After those 2 calls, she sent us to the ER.

7. What’s the sexiest thing your partner could text you after a hard day?

“The kids are with my parents so let’s do dinner and a movie!”

8. What’s your favorite iPad joke?

There was some comment about the some iPad adapter being called an iPon. heeheehee

9. What’s the dumbest parenting tool, gear, gadget or device you ever bought?

A wipe warmer. Serious, my hands are so hot, I could hold the wipe in my hand and do more good than that moldy thing.

10. How many years will it take for your child to become more tech-savvy than you?

That will be hard to do since both hubby and I are pretty computer savvy. It probably won’t take our oldest more than 5 years to out-tech me, but he’s got a long way to go to out-tech daddy!

The most expensive electronic devices in our house actually belong to our child. He doesn’t abuse or drool on any of them.

2. How many take-out restaurant numbers do you have programmed into your phone?

Zero. I cook dinner 98% of the time AND we all sit down as a family and eat dinner together and talk about our day.

3. How many hours of television do you so totally not let your kids watch a week?

He cannot have the television on during school and that usually takes up an average of 4-9 hours per day, six days a week.

4. Do you think people who say “we don’t watch television” at play dates but really mean “we just watch DVDs” are lying liars from Liarville? YES. and really WHO cares?!

5. How many miles have you driven with your child and not one device of electronic entertainment in a single car trip?

ALOT… The only time that we use electronic devices in the car are when we are travelling. (I-Pod, DVD player, DS) We usually only travel like that once a year… IF That.

6. What’s your record for calls to the pediatrician or Ask-a-Nurse in a single day?

I’ve called the pediatrician before, when Eli was a baby. I think it was only once in a day though.

7. What’s the sexiest thing your partner could text you after a hard day?

This question does not apply to me. We don’t have cell phones. He does call me once a day from work though to see how my day is going and to tell me that he loves me. I have the best husband in the world!

8. What’s your favorite iPad joke?

No joke. I wonder how many people feel that they just HAVE to HAVE this device… THAT is a joke.

9. What’s the dumbest parenting tool, gear, gadget or device you ever bought?
I think that there are alot more gadgets on the market now than when Eli was a baby 13 years ago. I’m sure that I bought something that wasn’t needed back then though. I remember when people would get those signs and hang in the windows of their cars “baby on board”… I never had one, but thought those were kind of ridiculous.

Oh… I can remember one… it was when Eli was around 9-12 mos. old. I thought that I absolutely had to have one of those thermometers that takes the temp in the ear. It turned out that thermometer was such a hassle to use. We used it a handful of times and then it spent the rest of its life in the junk drawer. I think I spent around 90 dollars for it back then also. Live and learn!

10. How many years will it take for your child to become more tech-savvy than you?

It didn’t take many. The good thing about it now is that he teaches me!