@Twentytwentyhindsight quite right!
Smallest Turret is 3 in February I think. I know all children are different but how is he meant to speak if the only interaction is with his mother’s phone screen or an iPad shaped babysitter? Castle is too busy living her best life, Mr Castle is too busy with another hobby. I get the sense that if there is no SM opportunity then there’s no point in any interaction with those children.
Can you imagine Castle having the attention span to match a 3 year old child’s attention span and putting the the donkey work, reading, to them, talking to them, doing child oriented activities? I can’t.
People like Castle don’t join parent groups, child oriented activities (unless to recruit) or mix with other families with compatible children so I bet both those boys live solitary little lives. They’re lucky they’ve got relatively hands on grandparents but it’s a shame they’re so indulgent of their feckless offspring that they are not pointing out the problem with exploiting a child’s privacy.
I know we’ve said it before but when oldest turret hits his teens and sees things like the post Castle shared of him on the loo looking very unhappy and embarrassed but trying to smile gamely, and when he’s got no social group because he’s been dragged from whim to whim, changing schools every term or two, he is going to be one angry young man. That’s if he isn’t crushed 🙁. I don’t like commenting on other people’s parenting generally, fully aware I’ve made my mistakes too, but it’s hard not to comment when it’s so hard to watch.