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Do you enforce screen limits for high school age children?

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MegBusset · 19/07/2018 17:30

DS1 (11) is glued to his phone recently - Not playing games (which are limited), just chatting to his friends or reading on websites, but he'd spend all day on if allowed. He's not allowed it at mealtimes or bedtime, and does other activities and clubs like karate etc, but what kind (if any) restrictions do parents of older children put on phone use during their down time? Is it unreasonable to take it away from him when he's chilling out at home, or ask him to put it away on a car journey (when otherwise he would read a book or comic)? Do I just accept this is what high school kids do and leave him to it?!

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MegBusset · 19/07/2018 17:41

Should add he isn't allowed it upstairs and has no social media apart from his friends' WhatsApp group (which I keep an eye on) so I'm not worried about content. Just that it's become his default thing to do!

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NorthernSpirit · 20/07/2018 09:29

Yes, we restrict as my DSD’s phone is like crack cocaine and when she in her phone she’s like a zombie and can’t interact with anyone.

  • No phones upstairs at night (she can’t self regulate).
  • No phones in the car (we’ve had a couple of vomiting instances)
  • Definitely no phones at the dinner table
  • If we are out together no phone useage
  • She’s obsessed at the moment with filming herself and taking videos of herself and her dad has had to regulate this as it’s becoming a bit obsessive
rogueantimatter · 20/07/2018 10:54

Yes. I used to say two hours of screen time. Mine are 19 and 21 now so they didn't have smart phones or tablets at your DC's age which helped. It was a constant battle though. DS would have spent all day getting RSI and stressing over addictive xbox games which he reckoned he loved. Incredibly unhealthy.

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KatyP1975 · 20/07/2018 13:25

No phones upstairs, in the car, at the table during meals or when family visiting. It has to go on charge out of reach after they've showered so there's at least an hour break before they go to bed. They're not allowed games on them either as my eldest couldn't regulate himself at all. I don't mind when they're chatting to friends its the watching crap on YouTube.

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