So she’s moved Ethan’s desk into his bedroom so the kid whose upset he can’t go to school and see his friends is locked away and more isolated from her
the poor kid is banished to his room from 6pm every evening, and now he's an inconvenience to babs' netflix plans, he's essentially been banished to his room from 10am for the rest of the day! this is the sensitive boy who was upset about not being able to go to school and missing his friends, so his mum has decided to ensure he is even more isolated so that she can sit downstairs comforting herself with sharing sized bars of chocolate, and not even having to see him through the dining room glass door - presumably because his presence makes her angry because HE is the reason she's had to cancel all her non-essential plans and walkity walks with friends. i genuinely cannot believe that she's shoved him upstairs on his own, just to get away from the poor kid.
i very much doubt he was "so excited" to be banished to his room on the premise that it has a better view (?!) - he is probably just aware that he has to act excited and pleased or babs will rage at him. the only reason i can imagine he'd actually be pleased to be in his room is so he doesn't have to spend the day enduring babs' embarrassing behaviour, but he's hardly likely to reveal thtlat as a reason he wants to be in his room! and she can no longer claim she's "teaching" her son, under the guise of home-schooling, when he's literally been left to learn all on his own. no excel "teacher of the year awards" from ste this time!
if - and it's a big IF because we all know that babs fabricates uncreative stories for engagement - ethan placed that spoon at the top of the stairs, he obviously did so for attention, because he knew that babs would use it as content. it's so sad that he's learnt that the only way to get his mother to notice him is to create content, which will get him a brief few moments of attention before babs returns to her mummy corner. and by "a few" i'm refering to the standard definition of the term, not a babs "few"!
we all know that if the golden child were at home, they'd spend the day sitting side by side, and babs would be sharing endless photos of them to her story.
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