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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SIL is out of line, but I’d be super pissed I’d say we had planned a fun family lake vacation together and you were just letting your kids watch screens the whole time instead of doing things sucking me kids in along with them.  A couple kids on screens a ton can definitely change the whole dynamic and make it hard to get anyone to do anything.  Just stay home and watch movies [/quote]

+1. Sounds like OP’s kids are addicted. If they were normal, healthy teens they would be able to put the phone away most of the time and engage with the rest of the family on vacation. Why do you need a phone when you have real live people in front of you to go swimming with, play cards with, etc.?

Also, OP is calling her SIL a hypocrite for sometimes allowing screens, but not all screentime is equal. Cousins piling onto the couch to watch a movie after dinner is very different from cousins scrolling through Instagram and TikTok all afternoon because the immediate dopamine hit overcomes any desire to try another activity.[/quote]

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