Commentary: A ‘no screens’ parenting style can’t exist in a post-COVID world
A mother who made her five-year-old boy watch the World Cup game as she held her infant for the second time in hours, and then gave him a sandwich on the run is a testament to modern parents’ tendency to turn what should be a mother-son bonding ritual into a competition.
It’s yet another example of the “mom-my-sucks” parenting style that’s all the rage right now, but in this case, it’s not the product of a post-COVID-19 parenting dilemma at all; she’s been doing this for years.
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A mother who made her five-year-old boy watch the World Cup game as she held her infant for the second time in hours, and then gave him a sandwich on the run is a testament to modern parents’ tendency to turn what should be a mother-son bonding ritual into a competition.
It’s yet another example of the “mom-my-sucks” parenting style that’s all the rage right now, but in this case, it’s not the product of a post-COVID-19 parenting dilemma at all; she’s been doing this for years.
The mother in question is Susan, a mother on a mission to make her son learn from a young age to love others and help others. To give him and her baby a break while they were able to spend more time together. She was holding her son, James, for the second time and feeding him a whole meal. After that, she decided to let him play with her 5-year-old son, Kyle, on the sidelines.
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“Kyle wasn’t really a fan of James,” she says, as she shows us the scene she just left behind. “He was like, ‘I don’t want to watch this boy!’ I told him about James being a mom and what it meant to him and he was interested in him. We spent the rest of the game together and Kyle was just watching. We got a bunch of food and Kyle and I split it up.”
In the second exchange of roles as James’ mother, she had her son’s back
