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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I understand your issues, but you also come across as a bit nutty/controlling with this idea that if your kids talk to their grandparents on *YOUR PHONE* for more than 10 minutes, they're going to become super entitled brats who think it's their phone. Somehow, before the age of cell phones, I was able to talk to my grandparents on the phone and still understand that the phone and landline belonged to my parents.

As the dad of three kids, what I would suggest from experience through 2020 is that you set up some sort of activity for the kids to do over the phone, or even better, FaceTime or Zoom, with the family members. My youngest reads books with Grandpa over Facetime several times a week (Grandpa is filling in where virtual schools aren't). This requires a little bit of pre-planning, in that we buy two copies of the book on Amazon and ship one to each.

They can do games, they can even just watch a show together. I'd also recommend that sometimes it be one on one. But the main idea is that they do some sort of shared experience, and get away from the series of endless question and one-word answers with which they've lately lost interest.

Good luck. [/quote]

Can you tell me more about the book thing? How old are your kids? Hoping this might work for us![/quote]

this one is 8. just do different books, read a couple chapters at a time. check for understanding, maybe do some short writing assignments related to it. whatever you want. [/quote]

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