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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. These replies are so helpful.

I wish there were a critical mass of boys my son's age who were just outside all the time. But often he and his friends are the only group walking around outside in our neighborhood (when I make them go outside). My son's friends all show up at our house with their devices - so even if I send them outside, once they get tired of it they go straight to the devices.

I too am torn about overscheduling (I have 2 other kids and don't want them to be in the car all the the time so we can drive my son to his activities) and wanting unstructured time (but then that ends up with the kids defaulting to screens).

I don't know that there's a solution to this. I'm also busy and have the 2 other kids so I can't always be monitoring the screen time to ensure that they are programming, for example, instead of just playing Fortnite. I did take Youtube off our TV and generally forbid it in our house... and that actually has improved things marginally (in that they are not constantly watching YouTubers and mimicking their speech and actions).

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