From screen time to tantrums to time apart, it’s easy to judge parents. But you just don’t know until you become one
‘I don’t know a single parent who didn’t at least attempt to have a screen-free home for their first child. Most gave up in the first few months.’‘I don’t know a single parent who didn’t at least attempt to have a screen-free home for their first child. Most gave up in the first few months.’Last modified on Tue 24 Jan 2023 14.02 GMTn the first episode of the fourth season of The Simpsons – aired in 1992 – Marge and Homer see Bart and Lisa off to summer camp.
If your answer to these questions is no, then parenting is largely going to be your sole responsibility. Sometimes you’re juggling every single thing on that list, plus parenting, the plumber, an electrician and more. Especially if you’re a woman.But I don’t know a single parent who didn’t at least attempt to have a screen-free home for their first child. Most gave up in the first few months. Did any attempt screen-free time with a second child? [Insert uproarious laugh here.
There’s a little thing no one tells you about before you become a parent. It’s called The Wall. When your kids get tired and lose the ability to regulate their behaviour, they hit The Wall. They start crying. And they then can get borderline hysterical. And, like a runaway freight train, there’s nothing on the face of the earth that you can do or give to stop them.
The point here is, go easy, because there’s a hell of a lot you don’t know about the “magic” of parenthood. You just don’t know the trials and tribulations of child-rearing warfare until you’re in the thick of it
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