Healthy screen habits for kids
Set up the devices and agree the rules with our guides. Then the app turns them into a checklist kids follow.
Family Checklist app. Free to start, up to 3 family members.
Set up the devices and agree the rules with our guides. Then the app turns them into a checklist kids follow.
Family Checklist app. Free to start, up to 3 family members.
Step-by-step guides that match the current menus on iPhone, Android and Roblox.
Set up parental controls on iPhone in one sitting with the new iOS 27 Family menu: what to switch on at each age, and how to close the gaps kids find.
Set a screen time passcode on your child's iPhone from your own phone, change it, reset it if you forgot it, and close the gaps kids use to get around it.
How to check screen time on Android: Digital Wellbeing on the child's phone, Family Link on yours, then daily limits, bedtime and app approvals, step by step.
Set up Roblox parental controls step by step: link your account, then content maturity, chat and voice, the age check, friends, spending and screen time.
What the research says about ages, limits and habits, and how families turn it into rules that hold.
What age should a child get a phone? Most US kids get a smartphone around 11. Use this readiness checklist, staged path and 2026 research to decide for yours.
Recommended screen time by age from the AAP, WHO, AACAP and Sweden in one table, why the AAP dropped hour limits, and a realistic school-day and weekend plan.
Is screen addiction real? What the DSM-5-TR and WHO actually say, 9 signs to watch for in kids, the ADHD link, and a gentle four-week plan to ease off screens.
Social media age limits for Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Discord and Roblox, the rules in the US, EU, UK and Australia, and how to decide at home.
Infant screen time explained: what the WHO and AACAP advise from birth to 5, why video calls count differently, and swaps for dinner, flights and restaurants.
Smartphone free childhood, explained: what Ireland, Japan, Sweden, France, the UK and Australia actually did, what is binding, and how to start a class pact.
Homework first, screens off at dinner, phones charge in the kitchen. Put the rules on a weekly board your kids tick off themselves, or print it for the fridge.
Your child adds a photo of what they are saving for. Every amount they put aside reveals another piece of the picture. Made for ages 10 to 17.
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