28th March Parents terrified they might have to parent


With recent research suggesting too much screen time exposure might damage the development of babies and young children, many parents are now facing up to the prospect of actually having to parent their offspring rather than leave it to CBBE's and Tik Tok.

Speaking in an exclusive to Grace Under Pressure's very own brain befuddled correspondent, stressed 1st time parent, Jus Gotta Sleep revealed, whilst never once looking up from dooomscrolling on her iPhone "I think it's just another example of the Nanny State telling me how to look after my children. Only last week they kept telling me that our eldest daughter, Samsung, who is studying 'the internet' in Canterbury, needed to get vacinated against Meningitus when its blindingly obvious from the name that it just affects men."

"I've only just managed to my youngest, Tablet and his twin brother, Eyepad, down for their afternoon naps in front of the TV. I mean I'm not stupid enough to let them play with Mummys other phone all day am I. And who says all this screen time is a negative. My little boys are only 6 months only and already their thumbs are the size of adult digits from all that srolling they've been doing." 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

6th May Olbia

Image
  A chance to stretch our legs today with our first port of call; Olbia, Sardinia. And it was a quick stretch too due to it being only a five hour stay. Up bright and early, so early in fact that the hot food at the buffet wasn't even ready to be served. Still it gave us a chance to watch the ship glide into port past a host of oyster/mussel beds, before performing a 180 degree turn to reverse into it's berth. A couple of short bus rides later and we were in downtown Olbia. But there an hour or so before anything appeared to open, the disadvantage of being early birds and something we don't seem to learn! Not that Olbia had a great deal to see or maybe if we had done the slightest bit of planning beforehand there might have benn but we didn't. It was pleasant enough but that's about it. It was pleasant enough but nothing special, indeed we were back on the ship after just a couple of hours ashore and then managed to sleep away most of th...
Read more

7th May Naples

Image
 I'm sure I've heard the phrase 'see Naples and die' suggesting that it is perhaps not the nicest location in the Mediterranean but if it's good enough for Diego Maradona fir a few years then it's good enough for me for 10 hours. Although the millions of tax free pounds he was paid might have eased his stay. By the time we got up, washed, dressed and up to The Kitchens, the rest of the ship were already there. Compared to the Marie Celeste of yesterday it was absolutely packed, presumably with people having breakfast before heading out on 8am excursions, our excursion was simply going to be the city of Naples itself as possible trips to Vesuvius, Pompei or the Amalfi coast would have been too much / tired.  So on a day when the weather initially seemed uncertain, we jumped aboard route A for the Hop on Hop off bus and headed out into the mayhem that is the Napoli traffic where it was every van, car and scooter for the selves. I think it's bes...
Read more