ABSTRACT
Then COVID-19 happened. 13 March 2020 brought lockdown. Quarantine. Isolation. The cog of COVID-19 screeched our well-oiled machine to a halt. In retrospect, that forced stoppage of our everyday “normal” brought clarity to both author's personal life and professional life. A fundamental ingredient of teachable moments is parental co-viewing and inherent in this research agenda is the assumption that co-viewing can be a valuable family practice. But co-viewing during COVID was revelatory not only for their research, but for their family dynamics as well. Five family members under one roof provides for multiple combinations of people co-viewing. Exploring what and how those family-members watched programs revealed the many nuances in our household: husband/wife; husband/sons; wife/sons; son/son; husband/daughter; sons/daughter; mother/daughter; and the family as a whole.
