Screen time, online safety, and tech rules for kids.
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He's asking and all his friends have one. His mom thinks he's too young but I'm wondering if I'm being overprotective. We could set it up with parental controls and no social media
My 9 year old is OBSESSED. All his friends play and he's begging for Robux to buy stuff. I've set screen time limits but he's finding ways around them. Also concerned about the cha
Just found out my daughter has spent like $40 in robux over the past month without asking. She said her friends are buying stuff and she felt left out. I'm actually mad at myself f
I gave my 9 year old a basic iPad for homework and watching YouTube. Today I noticed TikTok installed and he's been scrolling for who knows how long. He said a friend showed him ho
My son gets FURIOUS when he loses in Fortnite or Call of Duty. Yesterday he threw a controller and yelled at his sister. I took the games away for a week but he's acting like his l
My son has been saving his allowance for 8 months to build a gaming PC. Part of me thinks it's great he's motivated and learning about computers, but I'm worried about screen time
Got him a basic iPhone for his birthday like he begged for. Now he's asking for TikTok every single day and I caught him watching YouTube videos at 11pm when he was supposed to be
My 12 year old wants to play Fortnite with his friends like 4 hours a day on weekends. His argument is that all his friends are doing it and he's missing out on social stuff. I lim
So my wife noticed our son has a finsta with like 200 followers and he's posting stuff he'd never show us. Nothing illegal or super crazy but definitely more mature than what he sh
We started using YouTube Kids last year thinking it would be a good way to give her some educational content. Now at 5 years old she literally asks for it the second she gets home
My son has been bugging me for more gaming time on Saturdays and Sundays. Right now we do about 1.5 hours total per day on school days and I've been letting him do 2 hours on weeke
My kid has been obsessed with Fortnite for the last 6 months and I let him play on his Xbox after homework. Problem is he's staying up until 11pm some nights when we've got him on
He's been asking for months and says all his friends have it. I'm worried about the toxic stuff and predators honestly. I've heard about parental controls but I'm not great with te
My wife and I have been arguing about this. She thinks an hour of iPad time before bed is fine, I think it messes with his sleep. He gets maybe 30 mins at school for computer class
He's up til midnight most nights gaming instead of sleeping and his grades are slipping. I set limits but he just sneaks around them. We took his console away last week and now the
My 12 year old is obsessed. He's been begging for a better computer to play it on and saying everyone at school plays it. I checked it out and the game itself seems okay but I'm wo
We do an hour a day which feels reasonable but my kids act like the world is ending when the timer goes off. They sneak tablets into their rooms, hide their devices, the whole thin
He says all his friends have one and honestly some of them do. I'm not ready for this yet but my wife thinks we should get him one with limits on it. What age did you guys let your
She gets maybe 2 hours on weekdays and suddenly she's acting like we're torturing her when it's time to stop. She'll cry, throw stuff, the whole thing. I know we probably need to c
Started playing Minecraft with my 6 and 9 year old on weekends and it's honestly been great. We build stuff together, they get creative, I'm not just staring at them while they pla