I truly hate the way screens have taken over mine and my families lives. My 16 yo DS (like so many other kids) spends way too much time on his phone as do i. I've protected my younger DS from this by restricting the amount of time he can spend on certain apps (Snapchat, TikTok etc) and he's been ok about it. Only his now crying his heart out because I lifted it for a week as he was going for a sleepover and he's now spent about 6 hours today on his phone. I said I needed to put it back on and he's breaking his heart that I'm ruining his life as it's so embarrassing that he has screen time.
I feel this confirms my reasons for doing this but interested to hear other people's thoughts on this.
He is age 14. I don't want him to spend 6 hours plus a day on tik tok and I just want to protect him from his brain turning to mush. It makes me so sad that he is begging me to do this