Every child is different, so planning to stick with some specific strategy won't survive the contact with reality. You try many different things and see what wo

Every child is different, so planning to stick with some specific strategy won't survive the contact with reality. You try many different things and see what works. > How did you use technology to help you? Brushing teeth at first didn't work at all. My daughter just screamed all the time, every day. TV with some pop music sort of hypnotized her and finally brushing was possible. That was one early success with technology. > Did you keep your kids away from technology (like watching TV) for the first couple of years or just go for it? Our 3-year-old is allowed to watch TV in the evening. A big thing was to define the specific time - she knows she can watch only in the evening, so she doesn't nag us at other times. Before defining this time for watching, she kept nagging all day long, in a way it was a torture for both us and her. She prefers youtube (on a tablet), but it's sort of like TikTok for kids. A lot of short, stupid dopamine spikes. So we try to limit that and play actual cartoons with stories on Netflix. We also try to introduce her into some games on the tablet so that the entertainment isn't passive watching only. One perhaps controversial things I try to teach my daughter is to make sure she knows that we parents are the decision makers and what we say is also what will happen. That doesn't mean a lack of empathy, we try to explain our decisions as much as possible and we do yield sometimes when the situation warrants it.