Alone Together
“My son watches TV shows on his computer ’til 2 AM,” a mother I met on a tennis court complained during a break.
“What does he watch?” I asked.
“Those hospital shows, the CSIs, Glee Club, you name it, he watches it.”
“Well, my son used to do that also,” shared another mother.
“But you know what we did to change that?”
“Donate your TV or laptop?” the 3rd mother joked.
“Better. My husband and I sat down with our teenage son and had a heart to heart and then we invited ourselves to watch with him.”
“He was ok with that?”
“Well, no. But we make watching together the condition for his TV shows. He didn’t like it at first, but as the show got funnier, we found ourselves sharing laughs despite ourselves.”
“I’m going to have to give that a try!”
The woman’s solution is genius! She turned a helpless situation (watching TV alone yet living under the same roof) into a blessing (watching the shows together picked by her son alone.)
Alone yet together or together yet alone? You tell me.