Our DS has just gone into year 8 and is totally obsessed with his phone & iPad to the inclusion of all else. I have a no devices at table rule and no devices in bedrooms rule when they go to bed (make him plug it in downstairs) and I ask him not to go on it at other times from time to time and he goes berserk he's like an addict. Recently almost every waking moment he's on it has almost disengaged from us and family life. I understand his friends are becoming more important in his life. I would rather he saw them more socially than this obsession. What drives me mad is if we ask him to say feed the dog he tries to do it with one hand and drops dog food or his water on floor as insists on his phone in other hand or if he goes upstairs to get dressed or to the toilet or anything the phone goes with him he forgets what he's doing looses all sense of time and perspective and everything takes double the time. Any suggestions. I can't turn data off as he has it all the time. All I can do is hide his devices or get him to come to some agreement the latter unlikely at the minute.