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Comment by holdenc | Hacker News Reader

Screens are fine. But wasting time is not. My middle schooler is allowed unlimited screen time for ebooks, video editing, photoshop, and writing (other than messaging). youtube and social media is rationed.

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Same question here - how do you ration this? I am looking to swap to ubiquity network router just to get some control back.

Being able to create such fine grained control on ios seems ... unlikely

My solution is pretty low tech. I have a second desk in my office for my daughter's constructive computer time. So, I can look over her shoulder. All time spent on mobile devices is assumed to be youtube and social media. Limiting this sometimes means taking the device.

Thank you

I've had to go as far as completely router blocking twitter, Snapchat, certain websites, discord, certain Google pages to block new accounts from being created, locking a phone with parental controls so I can disable the camera and only apps that work are texting and calls, bios locking a laptop so I'm able to control usage, disable the camera and plenty of other apps, using my personal email as a recovery option for all the old social media (because you can log right back in within 90 days and it's all back).

If that's what it takes then so be it. I don't have time to be watching every last move so I just nuked it all at once. Oh well.

Network filter or some other solution? How about youtube for science/educational videos?

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