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Speaker 2
I'd be like, just in the security tab, just insta-card it.
Speaker 1
So that's a really good idea. Gibson, my other concern is about money. And insta-card, there's an additional fee there. So if we insta-carded everything, we'd go broke really quick and I wouldn't be able to buy you any toys. So that's like great idea, but we gotta keep thinking. And also my other concern is that like, when it's hard for us to get out of the house, I get frustrated, you get frustrated and then we get into a big ball of frustration and nobody's happy. And then an outing that could be okay, I'm not saying it's gonna be fun, it could have been okay, turns into an outing that is awful and horrible and we both hate it and neither one of us is happy. So I wonder if there's a way that we can help you with the things that we're challenging for you and maybe like, I don't know, what do you think he would say that's hard to go to the store?
Speaker 2
He just doesn't wanna leave the house. It's hard for me to go. I think part of what's behind it is, I think we are really like dealing with the genuine screen addiction. It's hard to leave my screens. Yeah, that is, it is, I mean, that's, when he said to me, he wanted to drop out a band, like when we should have talked about it, it was because he wants screen time in the morning. Yeah. And so I was like, thank you for sharing that. That is not gonna be a reason that you are gonna be able to drop out a band. Like that is actually gonna be a reason that I'm going to insist you continue to go to bed.
Speaker 1
So I'd be really curious, like, okay, so what is it about screen time that's hard to end it? Can you tell me more about what's going on? And like, can we figure out, is it harder in this circumstance than other circumstances? Like what's going on for you? What really makes it challenging? Because then we might be able to figure out a way to, as I said, to do a win-win. So screen time is often is important for a lot of kids. And for a lot of neurodivergent kids, it's their downtime where no one's asking anything of them and they're in complete control. And giving them spaces for that is so critical. But it's hard for them to leave it because any kind of state change is hard. And now you're asking me to leave something that feels so good to go do something
Speaker 2
that is probably gonna be like, met to awful.

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