Gaming on school nights - drawing the line
My 10yo is obsessed with Fortnite and wants to play every night after homework. I let him have like 45 minutes but he's starting to argue about it. Anyone else dealing with this? H
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Screen time, online safety, and tech rules for kids.
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My 10yo is obsessed with Fortnite and wants to play every night after homework. I let him have like 45 minutes but he's starting to argue about it. Anyone else dealing with this? H
So my kid has been asking for tablet time and honestly some days I'm tempted to just let him veg out for a couple hours. He watches some educational stuff mostly but I don't want t
My 10yo is asking for a Switch and I'm trying to figure out if I'm being too strict or not strict enough. Right now he gets maybe 1 hour on weekends, no screens on school nights. H
I know people hate on screen time but real talk - when I had the flu and could barely get out of bed, YouTube Kids kept my 4yo entertained for a whole day. No guilt. No apologies.
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Started playing Minecraft with my 12 and 14 year old during lockdown and it's honestly one of the best decisions I made. They actually talk to me now and I'm not battling them abou
My 15yo spends hours scrolling TikTok and now he can barely focus on homework. He's constantly on his phone even when we eat dinner. I've tried limiting it but he gets so angry and
This one scared me. Found out my son was in a Discord server with people he doesn't know IRL. Some of them seemed normal but some were sus. Had a serious talk with him about intern
My 6yo has been home sick for 3 days with a stomach bug and I've basically let her watch unlimited iPad because at least she's resting and not running around making things worse. M
So my son somehow figured out how to bypass the YouTube Kids restrictions I set up. He got into the regular app and found some pretty wild content before I caught him. I thought th
School gave my 7th grader a Chromebook and he says teachers monitor it during the day but what about after school? Am I supposed to check his browsing history every night? Feel lik
Just got my credit card statement and my 9yo has spent like $150 on Robux that I had no idea about. Apparently he was buying game passes and cosmetics. I thought I had purchase res
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Pandemic taught me that giving my kids tablets gets me an hour of peace and I've never looked back. Now my 5 and 8 year old are basically glued to screens. Started limiting it this
My 11yo has been making videos with his friends and posting them without asking. Nothing inappropriate but I'm frustrated he did this behind my back. Signed him up for parental con
He saw it on a friend's phone at school and now it's all he wants. I'm not ready for this. He can barely handle YouTube Kids without getting distracted. What's everyone's strategy
I've got Screen Time set up on all the devices with different limits for each kid based on age. I can see what apps they're using, when, for how long. Some of my friends think I'm
We've been all over the place with this but I finally sat down and made a real plan. 1 hour on school days, 2 hours on weekends, no screens after 8pm, no phones at dinner. First we
Started taking my boys hiking on Saturdays and they're actually putting their phones down for it. We do it as a family thing, make it an adventure. My 10yo has discovered he likes
My 14yo daughter is on TikTok constantly. Like every free second. I've tried limiting it but she finds ways around it. She's hiding her screen time numbers, deleting her history. I