I'll give a data point as a parent with an older child. When they're younger it's not so bad. You can simply say "only 1 hour of screen time a day" and the kid

I'll give a data point as a parent with an older child. When they're younger it's not so bad. You can simply say "only 1 hour of screen time a day" and the kids don't put up a fuss. I even went a year without a TV and they just think this is normal because they don't have any other experience to compare it too. At the Jr. High / High School level though it became difficult. Even when my son wanted to meet up with his friends in person and suggested things like going to the city park / mall his friends would decline and say "Why? Let's just hang out on Xbox." It wasn't even about playing Xbox, that's just where they hang out now. We even went so far as to build a game room and outfit it with multiple Xboxen, network switches, large TVs, etc. The kids still just preferred hanging out at their own homes and talking over headsets. The only thing that ended up helping was we set a rule that he had to join two clubs at school. He tried a few different clubs and found two he liked. At one of the clubs they just happened to have a tradition of going and getting Boba afterwards and hanging out. He now has a decent group of friends that hangs out, in person, just talking.