Hate my children’s addiction to technology and trying to find alternatives?

[WellyBoot12345]

Know that half term will be a week of battles of trying to get my children to do something other than watching endless TikToks (DD15) or playing games on Xbox (DS13). Doesn’t help that they can’t stand each other so any attempt to get them to do something together will lead to winding up, snide comments and full scale arguments. Board games are like world war three, trips in the car always start with an argument about who goes in the front. Help!!!! What have other people found that lured them away from screens that doesn’t involve a total pitched battle (because seemingly nothing is better than staring at a screen until your eyes bleed)?

I can’t help sadly as my 14 year old dd and 17 year old ds are the same. It’s actually really getting me down. I have tried everything and often feel like I’ve failed massively as a parent sometimes.
Has become a little easier since ds has passed his driving test and out more but dd is so addicted to Tik Tok and Snapchat. I’ve limited her time on it and tried to get her out and about but it’s absolutely no fun as she goes into a complete strop.
I am trying to get her to join some kind of club or group but she either turns her nose at everything or they are super expensive.

In all honesty at those ages I'd leave them to it, the more you turn it into a battle then the bigger a battle it'll become. I'd switch the WiFi off/block devices overnight and impose some basic courtesy rules around no devices at the dinner table and let them crack on. Half term is to have a little bit of a relax and this is how they want to relax.

When i was that age i spent the whole time with a nose in my book.. even took it in the car if we went anywhere.

Why is that any different from playing games, or scrolling tiktok? Its just as antisocial and time consuming.

Parents today need to stop getting so het up about computers/consoles/phones when its not only entertainment but socialisation as they're used to talk to and play with friends too.