You can already imagine the groans coming from my kids. This is me achieving peak Dad. I started setting our network at home to turn all the kids devices (and much of our own) off on Sunday. Screen time kicks in as well on the phones, so there is no circumventing it. Things are locked down.
With the exception of music still being able to be played (and subsequently clicked on in Sonos on my phone), we have been off screens the past two Sundays.
No email. No computers. No TV. The whole day.
It sounds corny and like something that would have been fashionable 10+ years ago, but I don’t care. It’s been 100% worth it.
Yes, there has been severe dread emanating from every one of my teenage daughter’s pores. My son made it clear that I’ve ruined Sundays.
But there have also been many moments that have happened in the past couple of weeks that haven’t happened in months or even longer.
All four of us were together in our bedroom in the afternoon, chatting together about who knows what…ACTUALLY TALKING AND LAUGHING without any agenda, no whining or pouting either. That might have been the best thing, but there was more!
We all did little things around the house together. We hung some pictures up that have been sitting in the closet for two years. We played soccer in the park. I rode my bike to the grocery store instead of driving. We PAINTED LIKE ACTUAL PAINTINGS (see photo above).
It felt so nice to just be free of a (massive) set of distractions and temptations. It felt essential.
If this is me ruining Sunday, I’m happy to oblige.
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