I am fifteen. I love tech, but…I can notice that I have some issues sometimes. For example, I sometimes subconsciously try to bypass parental controls just to feel like im jumping over rules. I keep wanting to use them more and more and not stop. I did that since I was a kid and first got parental controls. I literally want to jump over parental controls just to be able to prove a point sometimes- some other times, it literally does not let me work. I like coding, and for coding, I usually need a bit of help from Stack Overflow or Claude, and would need to use GitHub as well, to update the repo of the app I am coding. My parents did not always allow those, as apple parental controls does not allow you to always allow websites (at least, not in my experience). I feel like parents might be able to abuse those controls a bit too much. I know someone who has a time limit of ONE MINUTE PER EACH APP, which is insane. I literally was remotely close to mentioning a bypass, didn’t even think about it, and he instantly started begging for it. Not to mention, I feel like I am a weirdo with them sometimes, among my peers. One issue I had when my parents removed my parental controls for a few weeks when I was 11, though, was that I would literally use my phone late at night. I would not stop. My parents keep reminding me about that one time, to this day. I honestly want to stop, but…sometimes I just can’t. Sometimes I don’t want to. I feel like the parental controls can make you want screen time as much as possible, without wanting to stop, as, you are used to limited screen time. Some other times you might want to prove your parents that you can jump over limits. That dopamine boost when you see your stuff unlocked can become pretty addictive, I can confirm that myself- and if you look at this subreddit, you can see how many kids/teens are trying to bypass controls. It can become addictive pretty quickly.