Screen time, online safety, and tech rules for kids.
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Found out my 10yo has been spending 2+ hours after school gaming while telling us he's doing homework. He had tabs open on his laptop hiding Chrome so I wouldn't see. When I confro
My wife and I have been going back and forth on this. Our kids are 7 and 9, they want to play Roblox with their friends constantly. We're doing 1 hour on school days and a bit more
This feels early to me. He's 11. The teacher says all the kids have phones for group projects and stuff but I feel like 6th grade is too young to give him a smartphone unsupervised
Not gonna lie, YouTube Kids has saved my sanity on long drives and doctor visits. But I keep finding weird channels that pop up in the algorithm and it freaks me out. Do other pare
She makes a decent argument honestly but I'm not ready. All her friends apparently have one already which feels like a lie but whatever. Thinking about getting her a basic phone fo
Got a 7 year old who wants to play Roblox constantly. Right now I'm letting maybe 90 minutes on weekends, nothing on school nights. My wife thinks I'm being too strict, her parents
This 9 year old kid can literally play Roblox for 6 hours straight on a weekend. I set timers, try to get him interested in other stuff, but the second he gets back on that game it
First grader came home asking why all his friends have phones and he doesnt. They use them to talk on Snapchat and play games together. My gut says hes way too young but part of me
My wife thinks our 5 year old watches too much youtube and I think shes being too strict. Like hes only getting maybe 1.5 hours a day total. The AAP says one hour but is that reali
Looking for recommendations for a parental control app that doesnt feel like spyware. Need something that can limit screen time, block inappropriate sites, and maybe track location
Our daughter is 11 and most of her friends have iPhones. We've held out but she's starting to get left out of group chats and stuff. What's the right age? What did you do? We're th
So I was totally anti-gaming for years. Thought it was all just mindless junk that rotted your brain. My 12 year old kept asking me to play Minecraft with him and I kept saying no.
I finally looked into what Discord actually is after my 13 year old spent like 6 hours on it yesterday. Turns out it's basically just kids hanging out in voice chat while playing g
My 10 year old has figured out how to get around pretty much every parental control I set up. He's spending 3+ hours a day scrolling through YouTube shorts when he thinks I'm not l
He wants to play with his friends after school and we decided it was ok if he had proper equipment. Looking at some options but there are so many brands. Needs good mic quality sin
Been trying to get everyone off devices for meals for months and today we actually did it. No phones, no iPad, no excuses. Sure the kids were fidgety at first but by the end we wer
Had to sit down with my kids yesterday and explain that spending $20 a week on Roblox "cosmetics" is not happening anymore. They genuinely dont understand that the stuff they're bu
So my son found YouTube shorts on my wife's old iPad we gave him and now thats literally all he wants to do. Im talking refusing dinner, hiding it under his pillow at night, the wh
Not gonna lie, it took a family meeting, taking the PS5 away for a week, and setting up Apple Screen Time with actual consequences. He was playing 4-5 hours after school which was
My son has been asking for more screen time on Saturdays and Sundays. We usually do 30-45 mins on weekdays but weekends he wants to binge Disney Plus or play that Toca Boca game ev