iPad at dinner table - am I being unreasonable?
My 6yo asks to bring her iPad to the dinner table every single night now. Her mom lets her do it at her place when she has them. I've been saying no but then I feel like the bad gu
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My 6yo asks to bring her iPad to the dinner table every single night now. Her mom lets her do it at her place when she has them. I've been saying no but then I feel like the bad gu
Spent like 3 hours setting up Discord with family filtering and limiting who he can talk to. Downloaded some monitoring software that logs everything without being obvious about it
So my son is obsessed with Roblox and honestly I'm losing the battle. We tried the 1 hour a day rule but he just melts down when it's time to stop. Wife thinks I'm too strict, I th
His friends all have them. We keep saying no but he's getting to the point where he feels left out at school. My wife thinks we should get him one with parental controls and a plan
12 year old is playing Fortnite literally every second he's not at school. I said no gaming on school nights and he just sneaks it on his iPad. Wife thinks I'm being too strict and
Started letting him watch while I cook dinner and now that's all he wants. I try to limit it to an hour a day but he throws a fit. My wife just lets him watch when he asks because
Found out my son installed some random app from a YouTube video. Pretty sure it's malware or a scam at minimum. Deleted it but now I'm paranoid. Running antivirus software and chan
We set a hard rule that gaming is only after homework and chores are done. Gave it like 2 weeks to sink in and honestly the kids have adjusted way better than I expected. My 7 year
My 14 year old has basically become a couch potato. He's on his gaming PC literally from the moment school ends until I force him to bed. His grades are slipping, he never sees fri
My daughter wants to join her friends on Discord for gaming. I've heard mixed things about it. Do I need special parental controls? Can I monitor what shes doing without being weir
Some hacker got into his Instagram account and changed the password. We got it back through verification but it was like 12 hours of him panicking about his followers, his photos,
Just a quick question - at what age did your kids start getting inappropriate messages/requests on Roblox? My 9yo came to me yesterday and told me some player was asking him to cha
My 7yo has been doing Creative mode for like 3 months and he's basically self-entertaining. Sure it's "screen time" but he's problem-solving, being creative, showing me his buildin
Quick question - is this normal? My 11yo spends hours setting up bots on our family Discord server and I literally cannot understand what he's doing. He tries to explain it and my
Real question. My son started dating someone he met online (through Discord, supervised, whatever). They text constantly. I'm trying to give him space but also make sure he's not b
Taking the kids on a 6-hour drive to visit grandparents next month and want something that's actually educational, not just a babysitter. We've done the usual suspects (Duolingo Ki
how is this possible. HE'S 6. My password is completely random. I have NO idea how he figured it out. Now I have to change everything and honestly I'm not even mad I'm just impress
So my oldest turned 12 last month and we finally caved to the peer pressure. He's had a Pixel 7a for about 6 weeks now and honestly? It's been way less dramatic than I expected. He
Switched from Apple Screen Time to Circle at Christmas based on reviews. Total nightmare. App kept crashing, the filtering was too aggressive and blocked legitimate stuff, the inte
Been trying this for 3 weeks and honestly? It's working. No phones, no screens, just talking. The kids complained for like a week but now they actually bring stuff UP at dinner ins