Screen time - Addiction tendencies?

[Stellasos123]

Does anybody notice that additional screen time provokes a kind of addiction response or is it just me? I see lots of unreasonable behavior leading up to screen time and complete calmness when screen time arrives…. Afterwards sadness and withdrawal…. My three are different in the levels of this but one is a bit worrying….anybody got any advice? I heard it was dopamine addiction that these games release dopamine (which is a survival instinct to say this is good go get more…like fruit for example)….encouraging the kids to get more and more screen time…. They are 9,11,13 and I don’t allow phones but I want to get under the skin of this…
any advice?

Mine is way too young for me to have advice really, she's 2 years 8 months and gets some tv but no gaming or handheld devices. When she's older I'll limit her screen time if she uses handheld devices or is into gaming, and one of my friends installed a tech shutdown app which stops his kids being able to go online after a certain time. My 14 year old stepson is a very prolific gamer and when he has been at his mums house, who forgot limit screen time and let's him game until 5am, he comes back a completely different horrible aggressive kid and we have to spend two days reprogramming him. . . Luckily he lives with us most of the time. I guess my main point would be that I would limit screen time! My husband is very good at making his son go for walks etc so we get some good outside time to break it up but other than that it's wall to wall gaming for the lad. . . .

Thanks for that…. I suspect it’s still not an exact science but I wondered if there are resources to help? Nhs has nothing…… I currently allow 30 mins during week and 2 hours at weekends….Maybe I’m too strict? Any views?