I have realised that we have become completely and utterly addicted to our phones /apps. For me it's instagram/fb/mumsnet/news apps and for him it's reddit and sports sites.
He is a sahd and has his phone constantly in his hand during the day (he looks after our two young sons - one at playschool) whereas I work quite a stressful job and don't access my phone during the day at all.
The evenings seem to be spent trying to constantly get back to whatever cycle of apps we're on and I know this has to be affecting our kids in terms of quality time focussed on them plus being irritable (both of us) when they try to take the phones out of our hands etc.
We had my DH family up recently and I noticed that he was on the phone the entire time rather than spending time with his siblings who he rarely sees and really really misses.
Anyhow we both appreciate it's a problem but has anyone else found a solution to it? Was thinking if we got payg Nokia old style phones during the day and locked away the tablets/smart phones until say 10pm when we could look at them for an hour or whatever?
Or have anyone else succeeded in weaning yourselves off your phones/tablets and could give us some types / techniques. Apart from the impact on the kids it also means that our relationship is suffering as we're not getting quality time in the evenings but is this normal with young children anyway?