02/05/2026
This is literally us every morning. I’m not allowed to choose GT Scorcher, but anything else is fair game apparently.
It used to be all about dinosaurs, but now he seems to be in a vehicle-heavy phase. Hot Wheels, police cars, trains - if it’s got wheels, he wants it 🚗
We’ve actually had to take a step back from screens. At one point he was definitely watching too much, and would melt down when we turned it off, or if we said no. He hasn’t watched any TV at all for the past 4 days, and the change in his behaviour has actually been insane. He’s wayyyyy less irritable. He’s eating better, and although he still asks for TV and cries if we say no, he gets over it pretty quickly. And he’s got way more energy! We didn’t realise how disengaged he was until we ditched the screens. So I think we’ll be sticking with minimal screen time from now on. Sometimes it’s hard, especially when I want to switch off myself, but we’re gonna get better at letting them be bored and figure it out themselves.