Screen addictions

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My child has a screen addiction and gets drawn in constantly. Limits and lockdowns haven’t worked. Removing screens completely would mean no online homework or Teams calls. Has anyone tried this?

We have restrictions in my house

Over the past few weeks my 8 year old went a bit crazy on her I pad and got far too much to use it as I had to work

I told her now it is only for sat and sun she lost the plot earlier

She cried for three hours
Lay on the floor screaming

It is very worrying how addictive they are

I am so tempted to hide it or maybe remove it from the hose

No homework online thankfully

I'm 57 and an only child, I grew up with a TV on whenever I was in the house. I think that a lot of my education came from TV in the 70s and 80s. I watched all the classic films, documentaries, even the open university at times.

But I've noticed recently that my attention span is getting shorter and I don't want to sit through long documentaries, I skip through YouTube videos, I don't listen to a whole song but skip to something else...this is only in the last couple of years since my screen time has increased. So if it's happening to me, what is happening to a toddler?