The Rise and Fall of Everything We Once Held Dear
Social media in our pocket as the death of us all.
I have twin children. They just turned 8. With twins, all the things you thought would be hills to die on as a parent? Those “bedrock” elements of great parenting—No junk food! Reading books! No TV! Limited Screen Time! Macro-biotic! Locally Fair Sourced!—all go by the wayside. Raising twins is really about one thing as a parent—the absence of death on a day-to-day basis, both for yourself and your kids. Parents of “one at a time” children are free to have lots of perspectives about what great parenting is. I consider this sort of free time the root of much of the evil in the world. Find me a twin parent who has the bandwidth to complain about anything that is not a life-or-death issue!
However, it means I’m a terrible parent in my mind, in that my kids spend too much time on an iPad playing video games and watching YouTube Videos. These videos? They are about playing video games. They do not spend enough time reading books. They don’t have an attention span…