A new year, a new blog post? I again fell off from blogging after telling myself I would blog more one year ago. And then COVID happened. And then I went off and had a baby. But it is another year and the mommying hasn’t stopped, and for sure the electronics haven’t either.
Allowing my kids to use electronics has always been met with guilt by me. As a pediatrician, I rotely advise patients to limit their electronics to less than one to two hours daily (even saying it here I feel like I sound like a broken record). I target this mostly at the children themselves rather than the parents, hoping that if I tell kids one to two hours, then they at least think they should be on electronics for less time than they already are and meanwhile eyeing their parents sympathetically. As we got into the pandemic last year (last year now? So weird to say), I found myself easing the rules more and more with my children as we went more stir crazy at home. And let’s face it, I myself was on my phone more too, looking for an escape from the worries of the pandemic and uncertainty of the world.
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