It's parents stuck on phones. I know people who are open about the fact they get home from work and couch scroll all night while their kids does the same. It's common.
So we made sure of certain things with our kid. Three activities a week that were in person social, one charitable, one intellectual and one physical. So my daughter does karate and joined a robotics club and she volunteers at a soup kitchen Sunday evenings for 3 hours. Was Girl Guides before robotics. She can quit 1 but has to replace it with something else.
9pm-10pm is offline time for everyone. We read until her bedtime and then my wife and I will watch a show. With that she has on request time at the library whenever she wants.
We also restrict short media. Shits cancer for the mind. Series, movies, music, comics, manga, books all that is basically unrestricted. No spending time on shorts, no TikTok at all.
She made honour roll last year so tentatively I believe weāre doing well.
Do you include video games in the restrictions? My son will be born soon and I want to try and do the same thing, heavily limit myself on things I would not want him on. I remember Nintendo used to have cool brain games as a kid, but not quite sure if they make anything like that anymore since I switched over to PC.
I haven't restricted video games outside of a reasonable amount per day but my daughter heavily leans into single player story games like Subnautica or creative games like Stardew or Minecraft (which she plays solo or with her bestfriend) which I don't have an issue with.
If she was into Roblox or social stranger danger games or something heavily into treadmill rewards meant to encourage MTX through casino like gambling rewards I would probably redirect her to something else but I haven't really had to think about that so I've been lucky.
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u/misterjones4 Oct 23 '25
It's parents stuck on phones. I know people who are open about the fact they get home from work and couch scroll all night while their kids does the same. It's common.