Candace Cameron Bure Quotes

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

I tell my kids no television and no cellphones at the table.

Since we had our son, all TV is negotiable.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

I don't watch TV or movies or play video games.

I'm hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Being in Silicon Valley makes me strict when it comes to my children's technology use. I am surrounded by it all day, so I try to avoid it when I get home. I set screen-time limits, because I think it's good to diversify activities.

As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

We have very strict rules about TV and film in my house.

I don't spend too much time on social media, so I can protect my mind space.

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.

'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.

I see a lot of moms and dads frustrated because their kids have their devices at the dinner table and they can't seem to get their attention as much as they used to.