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[quote=Anonymous]OP already shared that a lot of the time is on social media apps.

Those apps are designed to be addictive and can trap your kid in a toxic loop. As long as your kid is living in your house, you are in control. Set screen time limits for apps as well as time that the phone shuts off at night.

Kid might protest, but it's better in the long run. You're not always going to be there to help them, but you are now.

I speak from experience of never expecting my child to view toxic content and essentially be duped into believing some harmful behavior and thought patterns were normal. But regardless of what's happening or not happening with the content your kid is viewing, there are many opportunity costs to spending that much time online, especially on social media.

I'm surprised by the number of posters defending this amount of screentime. This isn't comparable to being online for work all day, taking an online class, or teaching yourself coding. The kid isn't reading on Libby for 12 hours or listening to Spotify while studying.[/quote]

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