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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long has he been without electronics today? [/quote]

OP here. He has been without *his* phone or *his* computer for almost a week as of tomorrow. But today, he found a sibling’s device while sibling was at camp and then stole my credit card from my wallet while I was in a meeting and bought himself online gaming crap. That’s when I started getting fraud alerts from my bank. While I was in a meeting!  [/quote]

My special needs DC is a nightmare. No judgement.

You need a screen-free home. Your child likely has a screen-addiction.  You and DH rent office space. The other DC leave their phones in their lockers, at a friend’s house, or wherever. You send them to movies at the theater more often. You send them to friends’ houses more often. You reward them in other non-screen ways. You work with a therapist to explain that DC is sick and needs a screen-free house right now. You make sure they have a laptop and smart phone at college. You loop in school and make sure that he is screen-free at school.

To reiterate what another poster already said, you either get the tech out of the house, you get DC out of the house, or you lose DC. There’s no magical solution for this. [/quote]

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