Until the boys were about 10, they could watch half an hour of television each day, as long as it was commercial-free, but the parents didn’t keep a stopwatch running and movie-viewing didn’t necessarily count against the next days’ allotment of screen time. The rules went out the window when the family was staying at a hotel, however, and the boys’ grandparents blew the rules off entirely, as grandparents often do. The boys eventually lobbied successfully for an increase to 45 minutes when they started playing video games, albeit ones prescreened by their parents.
