I did not and still do not limit screen time.
Why make it forbidden fruit?
Some days my son will spend six hours straight creating a new stop-action video from his Lego characters, others he may watch an old Star Trek on Hulu (or a new Modern Family) and then turn it off. He's a different kid, and some days he needs a lot of alone time and needs to have long enough to completely lose himself in a project. Other days he's social and wants to go next door to play with the neighbor boy. It balances out. Books and reading are both great, but we live in an age where I think whether he's reading instructions for creating a new map, researching black holes online, or struggling to spell words for the video he's making, reading is reading. He'll likely never read Moby Dick, but he may make a very cool movie based on it.
