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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have always had this rule during the school year.  Lately she is really upset about it.  She says she just "wants to be normal".  She says she is the only one.  She cried herself to sleep about it 2 nights ago.

She has daily homework and gets it done without problems.  She plays soccer 3 nights a week.  She has lots of screen time Friday-Sunday.

Also, my hope is that if she doesn't have access to screens, she'll read.  She used to be a voracious reader, but now there are so many things competing for her time.  I feel she has stopped reading for pleasure and I worry that her vocaulary will not develop.

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I don't know if excessively strict is the right way to look at this.  [b]But, it seems like you have rules for the sake of rules. [/b] As your kids grow up, you have to re-evaluate when something is no longer necessary and/or no longer works.  In this case, it seems to me that your goal of no screen time (ie, reading) isn't working so why would you arbitrarily stick to it?

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Yes, this. Also, all my middle school's kid work is done on a Google Chrome. So if I made this arbitrary rule of "no screens" then he'd never get his homework done. [/quote]

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