Gaming addiction or just being a kid
My 12 year old wants to play Fortnite every single day after school and on weekends. He's got decent grades still and does his chores so I don't want to be that parent who's too co
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My 12 year old wants to play Fortnite every single day after school and on weekends. He's got decent grades still and does his chores so I don't want to be that parent who's too co
She's 11 and says she needs it for school projects and to stay in touch with friends. Honestly I'm not ready for her to have Instagram access yet. What age did you guys cave and ge
We let our 5 and 7 year old watch some stuff on rainy days. Bluey and some basic educational channels but I'm open to suggestions. What do you guys recommend that's actually decent
All her friends apparently have phones already and now she wants one too. I feel like shes too young but I also don't want her to feel left out. My wife thinks we should wait until
Put some basic controls on my 12 year olds tablet yesterday - app limits, time restrictions, all that stuff. He found out and has been giving me the silent treatment ever since. I
My son wants to play video games basically all day and I'm trying to figure out what's reasonable. We've set a rule for an hour on school days but weekends are tougher. He's pretty
My son started asking for a tablet and I want to get ahead of this before it becomes a battle. Right now he gets maybe 45 mins on weekends watching YouTube videos about building st
My 13 year old got a PS5 for his birthday two months ago. Dude is on it literally every moment he's not at school or eating. I'm talking 4-5 hours after school on weekdays, like 10
Seriously underrated feature. I set it so my kids' phones basically shut down after 7pm and on school mornings they can't get to their apps til 3pm. My 9 year old hated it at first
My 9yo comes home from school wanting to jump straight into Minecraft. I'm trying to do homework first but he's legitimately addicted. Started limiting him to 30 mins on weekdays b
Got my oldest an iPhone 13 for her birthday and she's been glued to it for 3 days straight. I set up parental controls and screen time limits but I feel like I opened pandora's box
Does anyone else think YouTube Kids is full of garbage? I let my 6yo watch for 20 mins while making dinner and he somehow got recommended videos of people opening toy boxes for lik
He was sneaking into his room at like 5am to play Minecraft. His teacher called saying he wasn't focusing in class. Grades were slipping. Finally said enough and took it away for a
I let my kids watch maybe 1-2 hours on weekends and my wife thinks that's too much. They're 6 and 8. They also play some tablet games for like 30 mins after school. Trying to figur
Installed screen time limits and location tracking on my 11yo's new phone and she found out and now we're fighting about privacy and trust. I get it but also she's 11 and I need to
She's on it literally every spare second. I checked her screen time and it's like 5 hours a day on that app alone. We fought about it yesterday and she said all her friends do it.
Started letting my 9yo earn gaming time through chores and homework. He gets 30 minutes for every A on a test, can lose it for not doing his chores. Honestly it's been pretty effec
My 14yo wants to use Discord to chat with his gaming friends. I don't really understand the app honestly. Is it actually dangerous or am I just being paranoid? He says I can follow
We do 1 hour on school days, 2 hours on weekends. No screens after 7pm and definitely not at the dinner table. It took a month for my kids to stop complaining but honestly the beha
My 10yo is losing his mind over Fortnite and I'm trying to figure out where the line is between letting him enjoy it and him becoming a total zombie. He's asking to play before sch