Screen time on trial
Judge Bex

Screen time on trial

A2ElementaryJuly 11, 202618 min

Maya's fed up. Every time she's told to put her screen down and go read or draw, her dad's sitting right beside her... scrolling through Instagram! Is that fair? It's a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do" and Judge Bex is not impressed. Then it's Thomas versus Mum. Thomas has saved up his own money and he's desperate to buy an XBOX but Mum reckons it's the first step to becoming a "tech monster," and worries the console is just the start of a very long (and very expensive) list. Can Thomas...

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This is Judge Bex. The cases and people are all real. Judge Bex's judgements are final. But Dad, come on now, you're telling me that you don't mind saying to Maya, okay, no screens anymore, and then you will happily sit next to her on Instagram? No, I wouldn't happily. Sometimes I feel a little bit guilty, but you know,

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it might not stop me all the time. Wow, and do you have the money saved up? Yeah. Well, that's pretty good, isn't it?

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If you've got the money ready to go, Jenny, what's the problem? Well, you see, this is a limited money. He may have the money to buy the Xbox, but not the monitor that it'll go on, not the console.

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