Anonymous wrote:Last night I learned that my 8 year old has been setting an alarm to get up in the middle of the night so she can go downstairs and use the iPad or laptop to browse weather.com beyond her "screen time" limits that we enforce. She loves looking up weather in various cities and just reading about weather patterns and such, could read forever (and apparently does!)

How would you handle?

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Anonymous wrote:Take the device every night! Lock it up if you need to. What kind of alarm does she have? If it’s Alexa I would take that away too

She has a Fitbit watch with a vibrating alarm. We do have a home desktop that she could use, but I do like the idea of turning off wifi.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s smart. I’d be impressed with her initiative. Fwiw smart kids can get around all of the controls we adults put on. A time restriction? My kids broke in and changed the clocks.

My kids are older now and doing great btw. Relax and don’t listen to the hysterics on here

Are you kidding? An 8 year old isn't sleeping. Initiative is fine and all, but the intense lack of self-control isn't great.

No parent should be rolling over and letting their kid walk all over them. There are always stronger parental controls you can enforce - I work in computing, I would know.

Anonymous wrote:My DC9 loves to check weather channel too, he’s extremely scared of thunder so he wanted to make sure he knows in advance. We’re glad he’s scared of dark too so he won’t go downstairs alone at night. We used to change passwords for iPads and adult iPhones, disable certain websites ( YouTube) at his laptop but had to lift it since his public school uses laptop for homework a lot. I had to warn DC I would talk to his teacher during parent teacher conference, about the amount of time each student supposed to be doing homework on laptop, since he spent 5 hours on it. He shortened to spends much less time on it now like 2 hours afterwards, but it’s still a lot. We just have to constantly checking on DC for electronics devices usage. Maybe let your DD to check weather channel few minutes before bedtime, then take it to your bedroom, and tell your DD if you caught her again you’ll talk to her teacher.

Anonymous wrote:Take the device every night! Lock it up if you need to. What kind of alarm does she have? If it’s Alexa I would take that away too

Anonymous wrote:She’s smart. I’d be impressed with her initiative. Fwiw smart kids can get around all of the controls we adults put on. A time restriction? My kids broke in and changed the clocks.

My kids are older now and doing great btw. Relax and don’t listen to the hysterics on here

Anonymous wrote:Set up controls on your router so Wi-Fi
automatically turns off at night. I use a mesh system and can choose which devices turn off and when (including the tv).

Also, I’d take all screens away for a while—like a month. Partly as a consequence for fbehavior and partly because this is full blown digital addiction and she needs to find other things that interest her and give pleasure. I had a teen with digital addiction and trust me when I say that’s not too extreme a consequence, you need to save her from her impulses while you can.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly - i turn the WiFi off at 11 pm and back on at 6 am.
I had a kid (older) who did this, and I locked up portable devices after he was caught. The devices were turned in and went to “sleep” in a locked area at night.