“I’m going to host a dinner with arguing as the theme”

The afternoon’s mission is simple: get the four-year-old home from preschool without an argument while pushing a ten-month-old baby in a stroller. A stop at Ica turns into a carefully planned negotiating tactic.

“It isn’t even Saturday, but you can choose exactly what you want,” the parents tell their son. He picks something unhealthy, brightens up and makes it home in a good mood. Later, they cook spaghetti with minced meat and sit around the table while the boy’s audiobook murmurs in the background.

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It isn’t even Saturday, but you can choose exactly what you want!

After the children fall asleep, the evening shifts to a feature film that Rojda Sekersöz’s boyfriend is writing and she will direct. He wants to examine every detail of the script. Sekersöz is more impulsive and tells him, “Just try it.” They continue until the baby wakes.

Knowing the baby will probably wake every other hour, Sekersöz breastfeeds him back to sleep and goes to bed. The dinner with “arguing as the theme” remains an unexpected idea from an evening shaped by family negotiations, creative disagreements and broken sleep.

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Just try it.