parenting question

[flea]

Allowing your 5 year old to watch 2+ hours of TV after she gets home from all-day activities that involve new people and/or physical extertion: allowing a necessary brain- and body- rest, mindless vegging of the sort that many adults enjoy, or allowing child to get away with murder while justifying my own laziness about not making her do other stuff?

Comments

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

Oh, the former, definitely.

I feel guilty about it too, but parents also need winding-down time at the end of the workday, and plonking Charlie in front of the TV means I can cook dinner in peace and become sane and rested enough to give him a bit of quality time later before bedtime.