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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My whole family is on screens all day long, after being a pretty strict screen-free household pre-pandemic.
What I don't allow is inane activities and websites. What I don't allow is any time whatsoever on Tiktok.  [/quote]

Sure.  All the moms who say things like this have the kids who are doing the most inane crap online, because mom is naive.[/quote]

The fact is not all kids and teens are going to be obsessed with screens or do these things online. I don't know why so many act like it's a given.[/quote]

I would hope it’s not a given, but the situation over the past year has made it exponentially harder to stave off. Some of the devices and some of the apps/games are addictive by design, and when we’ve told them for the past year to do all of their schooling and socializing on these devices for their own safety, things just got a lot more complicated.[/quote]

We are kind of giving them mixed messages aren't we?  Before pandemic it was -- screentime is bad, don't do any.  Then school went remote, it became -- forget that, now it's school so I really need you to concentrate on that screen!  Hey, here's a math game that your teacher wants you to play, which is a lot like the games I didn't want you to playing online before, but now it's for school, so it's ok.

I suppose a teen can understand the reasons but my younger kid gets confused![/quote]

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