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For a long time we’ve had what you could call “screen time limits” for our kids.

We try and phrase it a little differently, but that’s the basic idea.

And hour a day in the week, two at the weekend.

We must admit, we let that slip a little during the first lockdown.

But we’ve been back to it for a few months now.

Which, in all honestly, they’ve not been overly happy about.

They’re fine when they’re off and we’re doing something else.

They just don’t like coming off.

Middle son Jamie has been trying to negotiate with me recently.

To get more time.

One of his main rationales is that he wants more time because his friends have more time.

“Bobby gets X hours” he might say.

——- Bobby is a made up name to protect the innocent ———

I find myself sounding just like my own parents when I reply with something like “If Bobby jumped off a cliff, would you want to?”

Or “If your friends were all doing six hours a day of cleaning the house, would you say you want to do that because they are?”

It’s fine to want to do something.

Completely understandable.

We all have stuff we want to do.

And that’s cool.

But it’s just because we want to do it.

Not because someone else is doing it.

Despite what we might tell ourselves.

If we want to eat cake and biscuits and / or inhale a bottle of wine, that’s cool too.

As long as we don’t kid ourselves why.

We just want to do it.

It’s not really because our friend is.

If they were doing something we didn’t want to do, we wouldn’t use that as a reason to do that, would we?

Getting clear on why we want to do something can be the first step to changing that.

If we’re telling ourselves it’s because our friend is doing it, that will probably never change.

They’ll keep doing it and we’ll keep telling ourselves that’s why we want to do it.

If we realise that we just want to do it……….

For the benefits it brings………

Then we could, perhaps, question how else we could get those benefits.

If it’s because we’re low in energy and need a boost, how could we create and protect our energy on a more consistent basis?

If it’s because we’re feeling flat and need cheering up, how could we more permanently improve our mood and / or temporarily increase it in a way that doesn’t have the opposite (or other) effect longer term?

Cough, we’re really good at both of the above. Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting for more details on that. Or, if you’re not in or near Macclesfield, there’s our RISE @ Home Programme –> myrise.co.uk/RISEatHome

Jamie just wants to go on screens because he enjoys it.

And that’s fine.

What’s your equivalent of Jamie doing other things he enjoys as well?

Much love,

Jon “Millhouse jumped off a cliff? I’m there’ Hall


Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.