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.
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