I used to judge screen time. Not aggressively.Just… quietly. Internally. With confidence. I said things like, “We really try to limit screens,” while sipping a hot coffee and parenting one child who napped, listened, and didn’t attempt to scale furniture like a parkour course. Then I had a second child.And I said it a little less. Then I had a third child.And I didn’t say things like that anymore. Because somewhere between child two and child three, I realized something ver

This has been one of those parenting weeks. You know the ones — where the kids seem to bring home a new virus every other day, and as a family of five with three kids under six, it takes weeks to fully get through just one illness. Somehow, my middle child has managed to stay healthy (a mystery I still haven’t solved), while the rest of us have been cycling through exhaustion, fevers, and all the things no parent ever really gets used to. Last Friday evening, my oldest son