Reply to Limit screen time

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Limit screen time - mixed messages"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Remember that working parents essentially do your job when there not doing their actual job. So all that downtime you get in the weekends and evenings to relax, do your laundry, cook dinner, do the shopping and errands?  Parents don't get that. [/quote]

You say this thinking that all nannies do not have their own families and children... There are quite a few that DO and they actually interact with their kids on the weekends. They also work all week long (usually longer hours than the parents you are talking about) and might have much more physical jobs than a parent that works in an office building. Just because you work all week, doesn't mean that you can't be involved with your kids on the weekends. Some tv/screen time is fine, but to use the excuse that they had to work all week is just weak. They could easily promote other activities that the kids don't even need the parents for, or help with crafts etc that don't involve them running around so they can sit and relax while doing something with the kids. I didn't really "play" much at all with my parents, but there were always many things to do and tv or computer time was only a small percent of my day.[/quote]

Obviously you missed the part where I said "unless the nanny has her own kids."  But then, even if she as her own kids." And the part where I said I get the nanny's irritation as we're our no-TV house ourselves. But thanks. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics