Honestly the hardest thing to do as a parent comes down to setting a good example. If we want our kids to do more than scroll mindlessly for hours and hours, it

Honestly the hardest thing to do as a parent comes down to setting a good example. If we want our kids to do more than scroll mindlessly for hours and hours, it's incredibly impactful for us to model that behavior. (I'm nowhere near as good about this as I'd like to be.) With our first kid we were pretty adamant about screen time restriction at a young age. By kid three, the restrictions had loosened significantly. There was also a pandemic in there — but in addition to having a lot more on our hands as parents, we established things like family games at night etc. We watched Avatar the Last Airbender as a family and it was a great thing to do together. I introduced the kids to Sim City Classic and Scratch programming. It's all about balance but ultimately, as parents we gotta "walk the walk" and model the behavior we want to see in our kids.