Time without screens doesn’t need to feel like homework, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it might help to suggest some active alternatives
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My husband is on his iPad or his phone a lot. It is the last thing he does before bed and the first thing he reaches for in the morning.
We have a toddler and are pretty good at sharing childcare, but the minute I appear after work he gets his iPad out. It grates on me more than I can say (especially if we are eating dinner that I’ve cooked). I get that parenting can be lonely and tedious and that he likes to unwind at the end of the day, but I want us to spend time together as a family.
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