It’s not easy to negotiate every pea at every meal. To limit the screens when all the lessons are done remotely. Encourage sports when all activities have been paused or dotted this year. To refuse his teenager the long-awaited smartphone when social life has become exclusively virtual.
Negotiating a step back will be tricky
The pandemic, with three lockdowns and seven months of curfew, has limited parties, disrupted social and cultural life and imposed a lot of time indoors and with family. Many parents feel that their standards have taken a hit. When the tablet has become a babysitter to reconcile teleworking and home schooling, when we have let go for months on vegetables to buy social peace, when we have taken out a Disney + subscription, negotiating a step back will be tricky .
However, in recent weeks “normal life” has returned. Not necessarily the rules that we had imagined for one’s home… The summer vacations can be a good opportunity to reconnect with sport, a balanced diet and time to share away from the screens.
And you, do you feel that this special year has damaged your principles a bit? Your authority? Have you given up? What have you put in place to ensure the pleasure of being with your family? Do you hope that these summer vacations will be an opportunity to rediscover certain rules of life that you hold dear?