Parenting is one of the most relatable experiences that people can go through. It’s easy to find other parents who have similar stories about their children, have endured situations like your own, and can laugh when their kids do something off the wall. Of course, when you’re co-parenting with a partner, one of the best things is being able to enjoy your children’s antics, and that’s exactly what one North Carolina couple has done.
The mother of two boys, Morgan Knight, took to her TikTok account @morgan.b..knight to share a hilarious moment that she and her husband encountered after disciplining their sons. Morgan revealed to social media that her boys were “grounded” from watching television, and they weren’t happy about it.
North Carolina Kids Had A Lot To Say About Losing TV Privileges
In the video, which garnered more than 8.6 million viewers and over 1.5 million likes on TikTok, the mom films as her husband holds a pile of papers, which her sons have written notes on. The notes were given to the parents by their kids after they told them about their no TV punishment, and the kids had plenty to say about it.
Of course, the spelling wasn’t exactly perfect, and the dad had a little too much fun reading their words phonetically, causing the internet to laugh right alongside the North Carolina parents.
“When your kids are grounded, angry, and can’t spell TV. They decided to leave us angry notes,” the caption in the video read. “School is really working for us. Teve = TV,” she clarified.
“So the boys are grounded and I took their TV away and these are the notes they left us,” Morgan explains before her husband begins to read them aloud. “Teve all thas matters,” the first one reads. “Lets us wach box with legs,” he says, referring to a simple drawing of a television.
Dad’s Dramatic Reading Is Comedy Gold
Other notes read, “Let us wach!, Let us wach teve, let us whach teve, let us wach teve now, teve for evr, the lawe says teve govement, teve teve teve, we must wach teve teve teve, let us wach now, now we will make you say yes, now say yes to teve, we gon keep doing this,” and several more misspelled demands.
The final note read, “I am sory. Can you make it 1 weak?” That note also included a smiley face drawing and two boxes that said yes and no for the parents to check and return to the boys.
The Internet Couldn’t Get Enough Of The Notes
The internet had a field day with the video and the hilarious readings of the children’s spellings. “Had me hyperventilating,” one person said. “Please have this bound into a book,” another commented. “Why did they bring the government into it?” asked another. “I’m dying at the fact that they were two letters off from spelling government correctly, but then absolutely butchered TV,” a fourth person chimed in.
In a follow-up video, Morgan revealed that she was simply trying to share a funny video. However, she got a lot of criticism for her family and parenting in the comments. Later, the brood made another video showing them reading, because the internet told them to.
It’s clear that this family knows how to laugh at themselves and have fun doing it. The boys may have gotten grounded from their TV, but they created a memory that their parents will never forget.
Kids And Hilarious Spelling Mistakes
Parents know that when kids are learning to read, write, and spell, there can be some hilarious and unfortunate mistakes. One mom from Texas took her TikTok account to reveal that her son’s teacher sent her a picture he drew of a space ship. While he got the word space correct, ship was a different story, and he ended up spelling a curse word.
The teacher found it so funny that she felt the need to reach out to the mom with a photo of her son holding the drawing, revealing that he was very “confident” in his spelling. While it may have been accidentally funny, it might not be a drawing that gets displayed on the refrigerator.
How Much Screen Time Should Kids Have?
According to the Mayo Clinic, excessive screen time can interfere with important parts of a child’s daily routine, Health experts suggest that too much screen time could cut into other essential activities such as family time, sleep, and exercise that children need for proper mental and physical health. It’s recommended by some that parents should cap screen time at one to two hours a day.
While losing TV privileges may feel like a major punishment to some children, screen time is something many parents are already trying to manage and can also use screen-time rules as an opportunity to establish healthy routines around sleep, exercise, schoolwork, family activities and other interests.
For the North Carolina boys, however, their temporary TV ban turned into something much more memorable for their parents and millions of viewers on social media.
Noticed News has contacted Morgan via TikTok direct message and will update this story if she responds.
