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She Wants To Ban Her Husband From Using Phones At Home?!

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When Cassie's friend’s husband is home with the kids, he’s constantly on the phone. He uses any opportunity (like after doing a “chore”) to immediately sit down on his phone, and ignore the kids. Because of this, she wants to ban phones. How does she do this without being called controlling? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-bert-show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're on the virtue.

0:01.8

All right, I have heard of parents trying to limit their kids screen time.

0:06.1

Makes a lot of sense.

0:07.1

I'm doing this very thing now with my 14 year old, which is another story for another

0:11.0

time, but cutting his screen time down to two hours a day.

0:14.8

That has been an interesting challenge, okay?

0:17.0

But I have never heard of a mom or a wife telling the husband, we got to talk to about

0:23.5

your screen time because I don't want you on that phone in the house.

0:26.5

It's a very tricky situation because she definitely doesn't want my friend doesn't want

0:30.5

to act like her husband's mom.

0:33.6

But at the same time, she's noticing a pattern.

0:35.6

She thinks this is a problem.

0:37.9

So they've got three kids and she has found that he is taking every opportunity to jump

0:44.8

on his phone and sort of escape from the world.

0:47.8

So for instance, she'll ask him to do the dishwasher.

0:50.3

He'll do the dishwasher.

0:51.3

Then he'll immediately sit down and break out his phone.

0:53.6

Like as a reward for doing the dishwasher kind of thing, but it's gotten to the point

0:57.0

where he's parking the kids in front of the TV or their tablets or he's on his phone

1:02.0

at dinner.

1:03.5

And it's really bothering her because she's having to consistently ask him, like, hey,

1:08.2

can you take out the diapers?

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