Screen time, online safety, and tech rules for kids.
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My wife and I have been going back and forth on this. She wants him on an iPad for 30 mins a day for educational apps, I'm thinking more like 1 hour on weekends only. What are othe
My son wants to watch YouTube all day and I feel like a bad dad for letting him have the iPad while I'm cooking dinner. What's the actual recommendation? I know the old stuff said
Discovered my son was in some random gaming Discord with people I don't know. He said nothing bad was happening just gaming talk but I'm freaked out. Had the whole stranger danger
Finally did it. Told my kids (8 and 11) that we're doing no screens on weekends. First weekend was rough, lots of complaining, but by day 2 they were actually playing basketball an
He literally wants to play all day if I let him. I've set a 2 hour limit on school days but he's constantly asking for just 5 more minutes. He says all his friends play it and he'l
We do maybe 30 mins a day on weekdays but my son acts like we're torturing him when it's time to stop. The tantrums are unreal. He hides the remote, cries, the whole thing. My wife
My kid is the last one in their class without a phone apparently. They're responsible and good in school so part of me thinks it's okay. But I'm also terrified of what's out there.
He walks to school now and I like the idea of him being able to text me if something goes wrong. But I also don't want him distracted or exposed to stuff online. Looking at kids ph
We're trying the one hour after homework thing but my 10yo is constantly asking for more. My wife works late so sometimes I'm solo and it's tough to say no when I'm trying to get d
He's 12. Said he got it because his friends have it and he felt left out. We talked about it for like an hour. Decided he can keep it but we added him as a friend and we check it.
Have a 7 year old and a 5 year old. During the week they get maybe 45 minutes of screen time after homework and dinner. Weekends are a little more flexible but I'm still trying to
My 11 year old was on YouTube and stumbled into some pretty inappropriate stuff. Not full on bad but definitely not for kids. I realized I haven't been monitoring what he's watchin
Started playing Minecraft with my 8 year old on weekends. We build together, he shows me his world, we just talk while playing. It's like our bonding time now. Yeah it's screen tim
All his friends have phones now. He's been asking for a year. Part of me gets it, he wants to be like his friends. Part of me is horrified at what he could access. I know I can't p
Just realized my 6 and 8 year old have spent the last two weeks watching random YouTube videos for like two hours a day while I was dealing with work stuff. Some of it is fine educ
My kids want to play Fortnite constantly and I'm trying to figure out reasonable boundaries. I don't want to be the bad guy who bans it completely but also don't want them on it fo
We started letting our 7 year old use an iPad during covid for school and now he's asking for it constantly. He's started acting out when we take it away and I'm worried we've crea
I finally took my 14 year old's phone away at dinner time and bedtime and it's been an actual war. He says I'm the worst parent ever, that it's not fair because his friends have th
So my 9 year old's Roblox account got compromised and someone spent like 300 Robux that I had linked to my card. Not a huge deal money wise but man it was a wake up call. Turns out
My 14 year old is absolutely obsessed with Fortnite and Valorant. He's a decent student so we haven't put down hard rules but lately it's getting out of hand. He's asking for a gam