Screen time, online safety, and tech rules for kids.
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Been using Apple Screen Time + some additional filters and honestly it's been the least confrontational way to manage things with my 13yo. The key for us was involving her in SETTI
Okay so my son discovered YouTube shorts like 3 weeks ago and now he's literally watching the same 15-second clips over and over. Like the same ones. I set a 30 min limit per day b
Our oldest just turned 10 and his friend group is starting to have group chats. He's asking for a phone so he can be included. We're leaning towards waiting until 12-13 but curious
So yeah. That was fun to discover. The official one we know about has like 40 followers and bland posts. The hidden one has hundreds of followers and he's... actually kind of funny
So a few months ago I posted about signing my son up for a coding class thinking it'd get him off screens. Turns out he just wanted more screen time lol. He hated the class, said i
Been a months-long negotiation but we FINALLY got him genuinely interested in joining the local rec league. Started with limiting gaming to weekends only last fall, then made a dea
Has anyone else noticed more weird stuff making it through YouTube Kids' filters? Used to feel pretty safe but last month my 4yo managed to watch like 5 minutes of some bizarre cha
Got my 5yo daughter on YouTube Kids last month thinking it was all curated and safe. WRONG. Found her watching some weird "surprise egg" video where the thumbnails were borderline
Okay so my 14yo has been watching YouTube coding tutorials for like 8 months and he never mentioned it to us. Found out because he got frustrated one day and asked me for help (whi
Walked by my 9yo's room yesterday and saw something on his screen that looked... off. Some "family friendly" video with weird animations that seemed designed to creep kids out or t
Been trying to enforce 1 hour max on school nights for my 11yo but honestly it's become a battle every single evening. He goes on about how all his friends get more time, the negot
Idk if this is common knowledge but I just switched to Google Family Link for managing my kids' Android devices and honestly it's so much better than what I was doing before. You
Thinking about setting something up for my 13yo daughter before she gets more serious about social media. Don't want to be creepy about it but also... yeah. She's getting old enoug
My 13yo got Instagram "just to see what everyone was posting" and within like two weeks she was comparing herself to filter-heavy pics and seemed more anxious. I didn't force her o
So my 14yo's TikTok feed suddenly started showing a lot of like... body checking content and unhealthy diet stuff. I noticed because she was asking weird questions about calories.
Quick question - has anyone actually done the "dumb phone for kids" thing or is that just something I read on parenting blogs? Like literally just a basic phone for calling/texting
My son's been asking since he was 8. I held out until his 10th birthday last month and finally got him a basic iPhone with screen time limits. Honestly? Best decision. He actually
I see a lot of guilt-tripping about screen time on here and I just wanted to say... my kids watch shows, play games, use educational apps, and they're fine. They also play outside,
My oldest wants to join his friend group's Discord server. I looked into it and the features seem okay (I can see what server he's on, etc) but I'm not totally clear on how moderat
So my 12yo now has to use a Chromebook for basically everything at school. Then he says he needs the iPad for research. Then it's messaging his group project friends. Then it's 'ju