dont start me on this i have two teenage daughters that hibernate like bears for 12 months of the year and two gamer boys glued to various devices
Mine's plugged into her iPad running 5 apps at once, one of them is playing her music. She already had music school summer camp this morning, so I'm letting her chill. She just turned 13, between all the summer camps and her annual summer trip to grand-mom's she's getting about 2.5 total free weeks this year. She sleeps like a log, stays up on her iToys too late into the night, is moody, grumpy, and sometimes just smells horrible. So a teenager. She's also got a 4.0 after two years, determined to carry it a third, and has already knocked out one high school class while in jr. high and will knock out 2 more next year. So I take my wins and losses, it's nearing the temp of the surface of the sun outside with a UV index of sizzle, the coastal breeze is carrying mold-fungus and flesh eating bacteria from the sargassum blob, and I'm sure a train derailed somewhere spewing toxic crap into the air. There's no reason to force that kind of torture on a kid, plug em in, the safest world will be the virtual one in 20 years. Parenting pleasures my parents didn't have, tablets and ear buds. I didn't wear headphones for gaming until latency free bluetooth, which was long after my parents asked me to turn it down.
I break it down to fractions, 5 years left then I can kick her out to college and get some peace, I've already completed 12 years, that's 2/3 done. Five more years and then the middle aged drugged out orgies can commence. I can wait, it gives me some time to chisel this dad-bod.