 If they can watch TV...... If they can watch TV, does that mean they can have it on while they’re doing their homework or should they work in absolute silence (despite the fact that when they visited mommy/daddy at work they saw that a TV and a Radio were blasting away in the workplace because tests have shown that a certain amount and kind of outside stimulus is often productive in the work environment). Now here is where it gets a little complicated because dad, you see, has Attention Deficit Disorder and having a TV or Radio on while he works cuts out the outside noises that disturb his ability to concentrate and it seems to him that junior suffers from the same malady. Mom, on the other hand, thinks junior’s just interested in seeing what happened on the next episode of MTV’s "Real World" and couldn’t concentrate if his/her life depended on it anyway. What about bed time, a favorite for all parents, single or otherwise? Does a child need at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep or do some children do better with less/more? If their friends are allowed to stay up till 10 on a school night it’s okay with dad but mom says at her house lights are out at 8:30 no matter what, even if the child tosses and turns until 10 anyway. And on and on and on and on. What about the kids themselves? When they’re little they often either forget or are just plain confused as to whether it was mom that said they have to eat all their vegetables or it was dad that said they could have sleep overs on a school night. And if they’re adolescents they really don’t care whose rules rule at which home because they’re more interested in rebelling and establishing their own identity than doing anything we say. And besides, just go ahead and try to make them. You, the parent, will end up back in court for Parental Abuse because you tried to establish order where your children would rather have anarchy. |
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