Mum Alexis says screen time is a “topic of conversation every day – because we do it every day”.
She is keen to cut down on the family’s screen time as her children Romi, four, and Marlo, one, grow up surrounded by technology.
The yoga instructor says she normally resorts to screens if she needs to do something quickly, like pack their school bags or cook.
It might also happen when Romi wakes up early, and sometimes it’s simply “to avoid conflicts and meltdowns”.
“It does make me feel guilty for doing it, but you’re not always going to be getting out of bed bouncing with them at six o’clock and setting up art and crafts.”
Alexis says following the new rules hasn’t been easy.
“At the start of the week I was like, ‘Yeah come on, we’re going to do this,’ and by the end of the week I thought we would have no screens and everything would just swap perfectly – but it didn’t really happen like that. We’ve tried our best.”
