One father in Thailand decided to take a rather unusual approach after becoming worried about how much time his son was spending on screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of giving another lecture about phones and tablets, he came up with a prank that his son definitely wasn’t expecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to videos shared online, the boy was spending a huge amount of time using his phone and tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His father wanted him to understand that spending too much time staring at screens could have consequences, especially when it was affecting his daily routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But apparently, simply telling him to put the iPad away wasn’t working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the father decided to try something completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While his son was asleep, the father quietly grabbed some makeup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He then drew large, dark circles around the boy’s eyes<\/strong>, making it look as though his face had been badly affected by spending too much time looking at screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The boy had no idea what was happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He simply went to sleep as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next morning, the boy reportedly looked in the mirror and was shocked by what he saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The dark circles made it appear as though something had seriously happened to his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the family, the prank frightened him enough to make him think twice about how much time he was spending on his devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And surprisingly, the unusual parenting trick apparently worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The boy reportedly cut down significantly on his screen time<\/strong> afterward. \ud83d\udcf1<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a real concern behind the father’s unusual prank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spending a lot of time on phones and tablets, particularly late at night, can interfere with children’s sleep routines. Bright screens and stimulating content before bedtime can make it harder for some children to settle down and fall asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That doesn’t mean screens will literally give someone the dramatic dark circles created by the father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the prank was clearly designed to make his son think about his habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some parents use rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Others use lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This father apparently decided to use makeup and a little nighttime mischief<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether everyone agrees with his method or not, his son reportedly got the message\u2014and the iPad apparently stopped being quite as important as it used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, one unforgettable morning can teach a lesson that dozens of warnings couldn’t. \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udcf1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One father in Thailand decided to take a rather unusual approach after becoming worried about how much time his son was spending on screens. Instead of giving another lecture about phones and tablets, he came up with a prank that his son definitely wasn’t expecting. The iPad Had Become His Favorite Thing According to videos…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Then He Saw His Face<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Can Too Much Screen Time Really Affect Sleep?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A Lesson He Probably Won’t Forget<\/h3>\n\n\n\n