Screen time battles are exhausting
I feel like I'm constantly fighting with my kids about their tablets. My wife says I'm too strict, I think she's too loose. 9 year old is sneaking screen time, 11 year old thinks 2
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Screen time, online safety, and tech rules for kids.
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I feel like I'm constantly fighting with my kids about their tablets. My wife says I'm too strict, I think she's too loose. 9 year old is sneaking screen time, 11 year old thinks 2
Not even exaggerating. Every moment he's not in school he wants videos. Educational videos, silly videos, doesn't matter. We thought an hour limit was reasonable but he cries like
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So Netflix finally started enforcing the password sharing thing and now my 12 year old can't watch shows at his friend's house. Kind of annoyed because we're paying for the premium
Been trying everything to get my kids off their phones before bed. Apps, parental controls, the whole nine yards but they always find a workaround or just whine until I cave. What
Just wanted to share a win. We did a no screens week because I was tired of fighting. First few days were rough ngl. But by day 5 my kids actually started building stuff in the bac
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OK maybe that's dramatic but seriously this game has a grip on my 10 year old. He's been asking to play constantly, crying when we take the switch away, not doing chores or homewor
Need something I can use on my kids' tablets and phones. Screen time limits, blocking inappropriate sites, maybe tracking location for my younger ones. I want something that's not
My 12 year old has been asking for a gaming PC for months. All his friends have one and he says he feels left out at school. I'm worried about screen time and him getting into some
Seriously. She's 14 and literally cannot focus on anything for more than 2 minutes unless it's TikTok. I tried setting screen time limits but she just uses her friends' phones and
My 12 year old is on fortnite every single day after school. Says everyone at school plays and he'll be left out if he doesn't. I set a 1 hour limit but he fights me on it constant
Just wanted to share that switching to Apple Screen Time instead of trying to manually police things actually helped. Set it up so my kids get 2 hours a day and it auto locks at 8p