Everybody else’s families had been out at the ballfields for nearly four hours by the time I got back there last night—even the four-year-old little sister of Alex’s teammate. I was the slacker; all I’d done from 4p.m. on was take kids to piano, pick up dinner at Hy Vee, drop Nicholas at cub…
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The great god, “Screen Time”
My kids are such jerks after they’ve had screen time. It’s so weird. They get up from that favorite time and they’re whiny, uncooperative, quarrelsome, and generally not fun to be around. I told my mom about this, and she said, “That’s why I stopped letting you girls watch Saturday morning cartoons, you know.” I…
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Kathleen M. Basi 