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My son is still young, so enforcing boundaries is much easier (easier as in successful, the emotional disregulation is still there of course). It’s not easy. D
by germinalphrase 5y ago
My son is still young, so enforcing boundaries is much easier (easier as in successful, the emotional disregulation is still there of course).
It’s not easy. Do your best. Try to actively support broadening their experiences with (hopefully) the outcome that they expand their interests. I think the needed thing here is not necessarily teetotaling, but finding something better to do than consuming media all the time.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoWell, yes, this is the fundamental problem and why so many of us are really screwed in the post-COVID era: because something better to do was really hard to find, and one of the survival mechanisms for parents was to just let screentime run rampant.