Screen time limits backfiring - kids sneaking devices
So I set a hard limit of 1 hour on weekdays for my 8yo and 10yo, right? Thought I was being the cool strict parent. Found my son hiding in the closet with an iPad last night watching YouTube at 11pm. My daughter's been asking to go to friends' houses way more often than usual - I'm pretty sure she's just going over there to use their tablets. Anyone else deal with this? Feel like the restrictions are just making them sneakier instead of less interested.
Your daughter asking to go to friends' houses more is the tell that she's frustrated. She's not stupid - she figured out the workaround (go somewhere else to use devices). That's actually pretty clever problem-solving, just directed at defeating your rules lol.