POV: five more minutes
Parents recognize a scene faster than a principle, and the scenes repeat in every house: the screen, the shoes, the grocery store.
- POV: you said five more minutes, forty minutes ago
- The screen goes off mid-episode. Everyone loses.
- Next time: end it when the episode ends, not on a clock
- Give the warning as a count, not as a time
- Two more songs. Then shoes. Then the door.
- You are not being stricter. You are being predictable.