I had no idea how many quiet opportunities the tv afforded me as a mom. I know I have been using it wrongly as a babysitter and that every parenting book Ive ever read has warned me against it but without it, I don’t eat. Guess this “fast” is two-fold. I have had to engage the kids more to keep them busy(which is great!) but it is exhausting. I put in a DVD for Liv today. Both kiddos were mesmerized. (More so than ever.) Liv asked for another. I obliged. I’m getting so much done!!!!
Dinnertime stinks. We have always eaten at the dining room table but the living room tv can still be seen and usually I’m too lazy to turn it off. Liv typically takes a bite, watches her show while she chews, and takes another. We sporadically toss in a school day question which she may or may not answer and dinner plugs along. Without the tv, Liv takes a bite, gets out of her seat to do random thing and gets yelled at to get back up in her seat. This repeats until I’m too tired to care and she is too cranky to finish. I miss the tv at dinner time. Zombie child was easier to feed. We have got to figure something else out.
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