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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is policing the adult screen time in this scenario? Because it looks like it needs to policed. OP is spending more time in DCUM than with her family.[/quote]

It’s her husbands family. And the acts probably the real problem.

OP, it’s impossible to keep your own kids off screens if other kids are on them.  They are magnetic to all kids.  This is a scenario where least-screen family wins.

In my family we have dessert form every lunch and dinner.  Healthy weights and I don’t want sweets to be this forbidden thing. When we vacation with others who have fewer treats, my kids don’t get a cookie after lunch because you can’t give 3/8 kids a cookie in the same house.  My kids get it, and the youngest is five.  Teach your tweens to give a little for the good of the group.  [/quote]

I ageee that reasonable families should try to be flexible while on vacation together. However, I think that the more restrictive families should loosen up. So in your dessert example, which I have been in myself, I let my kids have the cookie with their cousins. I was always the most screen restrictive when the kids were little but I loosened up when with a more screen-friendly family. It's vacation! Not the time to take away a kid's cookie but a good time to give the other kid extra dessert! 
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