{"id":2910,"date":"2019-02-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/%e2%80%8bone-good-reason-you-shouldnt-use-screen-time-as-a-punishment\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:00:00","slug":"%e2%80%8bone-good-reason-you-shouldnt-use-screen-time-as-a-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezakariagroup.com\/%e2%80%8bone-good-reason-you-shouldnt-use-screen-time-as-a-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bOne Good Reason You Shouldn&#8217;t Use Screen Time as a Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"typeset--default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.apartmenttherapy.info\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto,w_640,c_fit,fl_strip_profile\/https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pixtruder\/original_images\/175f8cc83bffb55f4eecedaa70bbe2d5d64ea859\"><\/div>\n<p>\n\t     Parenting is <em>hard<\/em>. It&#8217;s also a lot of other things, but a truer three-word sentence has never been uttered. We&#8217;re all learning as we go\u2014reading parenting books as we encounter the challenges that make us realize why we need parenting books, and spending every evening after the kids are (mercifully) in bed wondering if we&#8217;re doing it all wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t  Here&#8217;s the thing: The children themselves\u2014and the milieu in which we&#8217;re raising them\u2014change so fast that we shouldn&#8217;t ever expect to feel like we have everything all figured out. 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