I was mum-shamed by a child who accused me of letting my kids play on the Xbox too much – am I in the wrong?
A MUM has opened up about being mum-shamed about her kids’ gaming habits – by her six-year-old neighbour.
The parent named Sarah recalled being called out by her mini next door neighbour, as she explained exactly what had happened.
The mum-of-four from Florida in the US had opened the door to her child neighbour and his older brother when the conversation happened .
“Well, I just got mum-shamed… by my six-year-old neighbour,” Sarah began in a TikTok video posted to her account @oversharedontcare.
“He and his brother came over to see if my boys could play and they discovered my boys were playing on the Xbox.
“To which the six-year-old asked if they just wake up and ask if they can play.”
“And then his older brother said, ‘no – I think they just get up and play.”
Sarah then continued to her 28.3k followers: “The six-year-old says, ‘Well you should do every third day for electronics.”
Sarah attempted to explain that her children had a “screen-time limit” for gaming – but the little boy was having none of it.
She continued to recall: “He said, ‘is it more than 45 minutes?’”
The parent then poked fun at herself as she said that it’s definitely longer than three quarters of an hour – and he’d now made her second guess her choices and if she was in the wrong.
Sarah, who recorded the video during the pandemic, then appealed to her social media followers, as she asked them at the time: “Am I alone in this?
“I thought this was a judgement free zone for screen time during quarantine. Right?!”
She added in the caption to the post: “Mum-shamed by my neighbour kid…
“Excuse me while I go question all my life choices.”
But Sarah was soon inundated with comments from fellow parents who said they were right behind her.
One TikToker said: “Heck, no, you’re not alone!” While another joked: “What is screen time limit?!”
A third was quick to add with their tongue in their cheek: “I don’t think he was shaming you.
“He was probably gathering information to take back home to make a good argument for more screen time.”
And finally another quipped: “I have a strict screen time limit of 75 hours per day for my kids.”
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