Kids need unconditional love —not boundary-less love
Wt’s the first month of the COVID-19 lockdown and 16-year-old Avi wants his parents to buy him a Nintendo Switch because he’s bored.
“We’ll get it for you,” says his mother, “but you must sign a contract committing to certain conditions. Like, you can’t be on it for more than two hours a day, and the Internet part has to be disabled.”
The backtalk commences.
“Only two hours a day?” Avi splutters. “During lockdown — that’s nothing! What will I do the rest of the time?”
Call in on your classes’ phone conferences and maybe learn something? his mother would like to suggest, but she knows better than to go there.
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