How much of a battle is technology in your house?

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Sadly it's totally taking over our life. We have 2 ds. Ds2 enjoys technology but also has other interests. Ds1 on the other hand thinks about nothing else. I wouldn't mind him spending 3 hours gaming if he had any other interests but he doesn't. He just moves from one screen to another. From pc to phone to telly and back again. He never wants to go anywhere or do anything and homework is minimum effort. I feel we are failing the battle and I don't know what to do. Help!

Surely I'm not the only one?!

Nope sadly my ds12 is exactly the same 😣does have clubs but is not very sporty sometimes due to bust life hard to manage

Bust?busy

My 3 are the same but may be a little younger. We have lots of battles. I have tried to relax a little bit, especially in the holidays.

Thank you! My ds1 is 12 as well. I feel our life revolves around it and everything thing is boring in comparison.

The PS4 is currently on top of the fridge as 9 year old was being rude. It was tone rather than words. We only have one tv and I just set a pin if they play up. I change my phone code regularly too. They complain. Lord knows what it is going to be like in their teen years.

It gets worse Mrspear and mine is only 12

We don't have any problems, 2 of ours are grown up now, but I used to limit them to an hour at most during the week.
Weekend they could have up to 2 hours as long as everything else was done first.
You just have to put your foot down if they are on there for too long.
Parents are in charge, don't let the kids rule the roost.

You're so right Romany. Unfortunately I seem to have got into a situation where everything's up for debate. I feel stuck. Ds1 has been incredibly rude recently and doesn't know when to stop.

I'm so sorry, that post sounded smug, just read it back.
Tbh, we were strict for an easy life. I can't do with bargaining and arguing so they just got used to having tech when we said they could.
It was ps1 back then, all completely new and I think it was seeing other children and parents at war that made us do this.
It's not that we were perfect parents or anything, just wanted an easy life
I know it's hard OP, they can be right arse holes at times, at least with tech there's something to take off them