Influencer Vidya Gopalan is getting candid about how she expects her daughter to behave during the school year.
“No. 1, first is you’re not allowed to watch any TV or play any games on your phone Monday to Thursday,” Gopalan said in a GRWM video shared TikTok earlier this month, noting that there is some “flexibility” in the rules or her 8th grader, including her daughter’s obsession with The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Gopalan, who shares two children with husband Rakesh and has amassed more than 4 million followers on her @queencitytrends account, shared that the second rule includes teaching her children “responsibility.”
“You have to pack everything that you need the night before for school: change of clothes for sports, water bottle, iPad, homework. If you forget it, I will not be dropping it off,” she said.
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Her third rule? Gopalan’s children are not allowed to have phones near them while doing homework.
“It’s such a big distraction. If you keep getting text messages and Snapchats, you are not gonna be able to focus,” she said, adding that her kids can’t keep their phones charging in their rooms while they sleep.
Gopalan and her husband are allowed to do “periodical phone checks” of their kids phones, explaining that there’s a specific service from Verizon on their phones that “monitors” their kids’ activity. While Gopalan said this “doesn’t apply to my daughter just yet,” she expects her to eventually share her location on her devices.
Gopalan admitted that the next rule could be “controversial,” before sharing that she expects her kids to get straight A’s.
“Are they gonna stumble here and there? Of course,” she said. “But the expectation is to do really well in school.”
Users were quick to weigh in in the comments section on the variety of rules, with some supporting her ideas. “None of this is controversial, I think it’s a necessity. You’re protecting them and teaching them responsibility!!!” one user wrote, while another added, “Not strict at all, your rules are teaching them responsibility, discipline, and structure in their everyday lives. You’re also protecting them. This is fantastic parenting.”
Others, meanwhile, were not aligned with her views. “As an education major and teacher, I LOVE all of these rules except the all A’s expectation,” another user wrote. “It’s not healthy, you can encourage good grades without them HAVING to have ALL A’s…”