Last night I dreamed I had a smart phone and I was eating it. Weird, I know. I’ll chalk it up to being in the process of writing this blog post. Because I had a moment this past week that shocked me, even though it was only a visceral confirmation of things I already knew.…
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An Update On Our Screen Time Experiment
A while back, I posted about my new policy toward kids and screen time. Since we’ve been at it for about six weeks, I thought I’d take a minute to share how it’s going. 1. I’m using screen time less as a babysitter. It used to be that we had frequent fights over who got the…
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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 