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Ending screen time. I've got a lot of questions about this, that there's always an argument, there's

always crying, there's a beg for more, there's often screaming. Why do we get into that power

struggle when it comes to ending screen time? It's hard to say why depending on the family.

It could be, as I mentioned earlier, there's maybe this aspect of scarcity. It might be, you know, I don't know when I'm going to have it again. So I'm going to try everything I can to try to get more of it now. I often encourage families to have this predictable relationship with screen time. It's not an overnight solution. It takes time to get kids used to a routine, especially if a child is maybe used to a more scarce

relationship where they didn't really know when they were going to have access to screens.

It can take a long time.

It can take weeks for them to really build in trust and buy-in into something new.

For me and for many people that follow me,

they have found that having that predictable relationship,

it makes it more predictable for the child, but also for the adult.

Sometimes we fall into the trap of like,

oh, I really need that five extra minutes,

or I just, you know, I can't even right now.

And then now I feel guilty. So now I feel

like you have to take it away. Well, sometimes having that routine is nice for the adult because

then I know, okay, like I have five more minutes of the screen time. I need to wrap up what I'm doing.

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