{"id":18455,"date":"2025-04-11T02:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/my-husband-is-always-on-his-ipad-i-miss-him-how-can-i-ask-for-screen-free-time-together-leading-questions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T02:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T00:37:23","slug":"my-husband-is-always-on-his-ipad-i-miss-him-how-can-i-ask-for-screen-free-time-together-leading-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/my-husband-is-always-on-his-ipad-i-miss-him-how-can-i-ask-for-screen-free-time-together-leading-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"My husband is always on his iPad. I miss him. How can I ask for screen-free time together? | Leading questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time without screens doesn\u2019t need to feel like homework, writes advice columnist <strong>Eleanor Gordon-Smith<\/strong>. But it might help to suggest some active alternatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/series\/leading-questions\">Leading questions<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>My husband is <\/strong><strong>on his iP<\/strong><strong>ad or his phone a lot. It is the last thing he does before bed and the first thing he reaches for in the morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We have a toddler and are pretty good at sharing childcare, but the minute I appear after work he gets his i<\/strong><strong>Pad out. It grates on me more than I can say (especially if we are eating dinner that I\u2019ve cooked). I get that parenting can be lonely and tedious and that he likes to unwind at the end of the day, but I want us to spend time together as a family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/apr\/11\/my-husband-is-always-on-his-ipad-i-miss-him-how-can-i-ask-for-screen-free-time-together\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/31c4df83551a811e1d6329b344c101af69d0bdfd\/0_1662_4500_2698\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d20bfcbe6e38003dc04d8be8c18ae39b\" title=\"My husband is always on his iPad. I miss him. How can I ask for screen-free time together? | Leading questions\" \/>Time without screens doesn\u2019t need to feel like homework, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it might help to suggest some active alternatives<br \/>\nRead more Leading questions<\/p>\n<p>My husband is on his iPad or his phone a lot. It is the last thing he does before bed and the first thing he reaches for in the morning.<br \/>\nWe have a toddler and are pretty good at sharing childcare, but the minute I appear after work he gets his iPad out. It grates on me more than I can say (especially if we are eating dinner that I\u2019ve cooked). I get that parenting can be lonely and tedious and that he likes to unwind at the end of the day, but I want us to spend time together as a family. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time without screens doesn\u2019t need to feel like homework, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it might help to suggest some active alternatives Read more Leading questions My husband is on his iPad or his phone a lot. It is the last thing he does before bed and the first thing he reaches for in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/my-husband-is-always-on-his-ipad-i-miss-him-how-can-i-ask-for-screen-free-time-together-leading-questions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My husband is always on his iPad. I miss him. How can I ask for screen-free time together? | Leading questions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}