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((HUGS)), mama!
Mama, no one will drop off the face of the earth if you took a few days or weeks to tend yourself and your family! Take a hiatus from being online/on your computer and do things with your family! Picnic on the lawn or in your livingroom, plant and tend a garden....fairy? Butterfly? Veggie? Strawberry patch? (yes, you can even have a garden in an apt!)....teach your ds to ride a bike, or go to the library for story time, GET OUT OF THE HOUSE! Summer is just around the corner! Enjoy the WARM pleasant weather as well as your ds! You'll most likely NOT think...boy, I have to admit to feeling badly about not reading the AM forums for a while as opposed to thinking, boy, I wish I'd spent more time with my ds! It's a hard things....adult conversations for many consist of these forums! (it does for me at times!)....so it's hard to let go, but you CAN keep in touch with those you really care about and whatnot.
BALANCE....home/family time vs computer/internet time. There are lots of things you and Christian can do to increase his knowledge and have FUN while doing it!
((HUGS))
I'm a yeller at times, so I do understand the guilt aspect of the computer vs child(ren) thing.
PS- Time outs work for us. They use it in his pre-preschool class and he'll FINALLY sit still for us to use it at home. My ds KNOWS he's done a NO-NO and has to sit down quietly for 3 minutes and when the time is up I tell him in no uncertain terms what he did was wrong and next time to do XYZ. (poop goes IN the potty, not as artwork on your bedroom walls; NO hitting the puppy, hitting hurts and hurting isn't nice, etc) It's beginning to work for us. Also, since starting Atkins, we're ALL eating a lot less sugar....mostly working on cutting out frivilous forms of sugar like cookies, candy, koolaid, etc. But that's working!
Wish I had better advice for you, hopefully someone else makes MUCH more sense than I.
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