‘My kids had been watching screens all night’

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Sure there is sometimes a fuss about screens, but most mothers are secretly overjoyed that these things exist. However, sometimes things go wrong. This is also the case with Maura (42), mother of Mika (10) and Lynn (8).

My husband and I were so maddened by the daily negotiation of screen times, whose turn it was to feed the rabbits and how many bites to eat of the vegetables they suddenly didn’t like, that we decided to switch roles for a day. to spin.

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roles reversed

A tip I once saw in a TV program: the children could be older for a day and we would behave like the children. So: no screen restrictions for them, no broccoli, and we had to take care of the rabbits.

“The children were allowed to be older for a day and we would behave like the children”

It went great. We had breakfast with lukewarm oven chips, donuts for lunch and after the leftover fries from that morning, Mika and Lynn put us to bed at eight o’clock at night. Where my husband and I secretly enjoyed a movie night with just the two of us, waiting to see how our kids would probably stay up until midnight.

nocturnal animals

The next morning at 7.30 we found Mika with the iPad in his hands. “Have you been looking at that all night?” I asked. ‘No,’ he said, ‘we also watched TV in between and played on the Playstation.’”

This article can be found in Kek Mama 07-2022.

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