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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of these responses are off base.  (not OP)

1.  This was not SILs house- so "my house, my rules" does not apply.
2. This was not a "playdate".  They are spending the entire long weekend together, so some time on screens does not mean they are never interacting.
3. This kids are tweens and teens, not preschool or elementary kids.
4. OP has limits and downtime controls on her kids phone, so she has set her own boundaries on screen time with the kids.  And they were not on screens all the time if not for SIL's intervention.

SIL overstepped.  OP confronted her directly.  And she vented here.

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Nope, sorry, you don’t have a leg to stand on. OP did not “vent here.” The thread title is not, “Vent: My SIL tries to police my kids’ screen time,” it is a screechy PSA that assumes the worst of each and every person that reads it. What is most hilarious is that OP is essentially trying to do what she claims is so wrong of SIL to do: she is policing the DCUM audience by telling them (grown adults) what to do when she doesn’t actually know how they handle family dynamics, she assumes that we are wronging people left, right, and center.

If OP had come at this as an actual vent, I would have been 100% on her side. But she didn’t. She rolled in here assuming the worst OF US and telling us what to do.[/quote]

You don't appear to be objecting to or contradicting anything substantive about the issue or what actually happened.  You are objecting only to the tone OP took in posting?[/quote]

And the hypocrisy. She’s making the point that no one should tell parents what to do, and she is doing so by literally telling parents what to do. [/quote]

OP here. Its not hypocritical. I don't impose my rules on her children, and she should not expect to impose her rules on my children. The same way that different parents have different rules on what must/may be eaten at meals, and when bedtime is. [/quote]

Are your kids' screens distracting her kids?  If my kids were distracting their cousins and parents didn't want them exposed to screens, I would make my kids do their screens somewhere without the cousins.  If my kids were being distracted, I would just tell them "2 hours screens per day and that includes watching Cousin play their screens."  [/quote]

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