Hate alllllll you want but this is actually very good parenting: Guelph family lives like it's 1986

In an effort to be good parents, Blair and Morgan Guelph have taken their family back in time to 1986 Literally! ("really?" No, jackass....... that isn't possible.....yet)

What brought on this drastic and totally unorthodox (yet incredibly clever and innovative) you may ask, well I have the answer: kids (they're always the problem and solution aren't they?).

The family started shunning technology after Blair asked his son Trey to join him in playing outside. Unfortunately, Trey opted to continue swiping his tiny fingers on daddy’s iPad and, in the process, unwittingly sentenced his family to a year of let’s-pretend-it’s-not-2013.

“That’s kind of when it hit me because I’m like, wow, when I was a kid, I lived outside,” Blair said.

Now I'll be the first to admit that this is a little bit crazy and so would Blair Guelph, but that's the reason why he's decided to do it. (After all drastic times call for drastic measures)

“We’re parenting our kids the same way we were parented for a year just to see what it’s like,” Blair said.They do their banking in person instead of online. They develop rolls of film for $20 each instead of Instagramming their sons’ antics.They recently traveled across the United States using paper maps and entertaining their screaming kids with colouring books and stickers, passing car after car with TVs embedded in the headrests and content infants seated in the back.

Continue reading for more info on this Eastbound lookin family.

He challenges people to think of what their evenings would be like without an iPhone or laptop.

“What’s your Saturday going to consist of?” he asked.

During their American roadtrip, he noticed his bored kids would throw tantrums in the car but would actively find ways to entertain themselves once they got to the hotel pool. Meanwhile, other children were absorbed in their parents’ tablets, he said.

“And you’re kind of like ‘Wow, we’re in this beautiful state and nobody’s enjoying it,’” he said.

However, the eccentric lifestyle has taken its toll on Blair’s professional life. He said he lost a business partner because he insisted on working the old-fashioned way.

“I can fax you, that’s the best I can do, but I want to meet you in person, I want to see you, I want to sit down and talk to you,” he said.

He plans on sending out resumes drafted in cursive handwriting, even though many workplaces now only take online job applications.

The financial fall-out isn’t so bad, Blair said.

“It’s way cheaper,” he said. “Everybody just gives me stuff.”

Sometimes they come home to a pile of VHS tapes on the doorstep.

The change has been good for their family’s spirit as well, Morgan said.

“We’re just closer, there’s more talking,” she said.


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