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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.

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Two separate kingdoms cannot govern one wandering child.

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