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[quote=Anonymous]Yesterday kids were off school for election day.  AP was scheduled to be on duty for the full day.  Kids are 8 and 12.  I typically set screen time limits (e.g. 2 hours total time) because kids will use screens as much as they can get away with.  However, APs often have trouble enforcing the limits.  Therefore, I also sometimes have screen-free days because that seems much easier for everyone.  (why is that. . . ?)  Yesterday, I explained to the kids and to the AP that it was a screen-free day.  All agreed and understood.  As I was leaving, 12 year old said a particular soccer match would be on, could that be an exception?  I said no to the soccer match (in front of AP).  No screens.  Left for work.

Got home last night.  Asked how the screen-free day went.  Learned that they mostly followed it, but that AP had decided the it was ok to watch the soccer match in the afternoon and told the kids that the screen free time did not apply to AP.  Of course, kids were they are also watched with AP for part of that time.  WHAT!?!

We had a serious sit down with AP last night.  We asked why?  How could that have been ok in AP's mind?  Didn't really get a good answer but did get an admission of making a mistake.  We are moving forward, but the trust is significantly damaged.  We are considering rematch.

Would you rematch over something like this?  We were very upset.  Am I over-reacting?  Would you loop in the LCC?  [/quote]

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