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Scenario

How divorced parents navigate conflicting gaming rules across two households

My co-parent and I are dealing with our 12-year-old's intense gaming habit after our divorce and we have completely different rules at our houses — they're more permissive and I feel like the bad guy, but when I try to bring it up it turns into a fight about our parenting philosophies.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two separate kingdoms cannot govern one wandering child.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gaming and children?”

Peri

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