Even with screen time recommendations, guidelines and safety-nets, managing your child’s screen time expectations and usage is a challenge to every parent. It can be one of the biggest causes of tension between older children and their parents. Here is our story…
You can read the first part of this story here…
Why Are My Parents the Screen Time Police?
Tomos (Aged 10)
It’s so unfair! Why do we have to do chores after school every single day?
I stomp up the stairs, putting extra force into each step because I know it annoys them. ‘Them’ being my parents but right now more specifically my mother.
Did you hear that my friends think she is so cool? We were talking in school because one of my friends got grounded for a whole month. Which means (as I also had to explain to Mum) that he lost his phone for approximately 30 days depending on the month.
I mean that is just unfair.
I, myself, have never lost screen time.
But then I also don’t have a phone because they are making me wait for high school and there are going to be ‘rules’ around how I use it – blah, blah, blah. My friends have had phones for ages already. I’m the only one in my class that doesn’t have a phone – I think.
Or a games console – my own games console where we can play much better games on. Everyone else has got one.
So I can’t really be grounded because I don’t have a device to lose. So not cool.
Well, that’s not entirely true. We do have one tablet to share between me and my brother – I mean talk about unfair.
So we have to share it. Every day. On a school day that means 30 minutes each.
And we only get screen time if we have done all of our after school chores and had some non-screen-based chill time. It’s so boring! Especially when my programme has finished on a cliff-hanger and I have to wait a full 24 hours to watch the next episode.
Talk about strict!
And she checks what we are watching or playing to make sure its suitable. I mean, come on Mum, I’m not a baby any more.
I don’t care what my friends think. My Mum is not cool. She is the screen time police.
I bet my friends’ mums are so much cooler than mine.
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