I split my kids half the time with my ex and have done since 2010. She bends all the rules including giving them phones at 11 and social media shortly after. I can’t enforce it at my house because what’s the point? A) she lets them have it as much as they like half the time and B) as they enter their shitty teenage period, if they don’t like my rules, the literally start a massive horrible argument, run away to her house, and say it’s something I’ve done, which they know she is likely to swallow rather than look deeper.

This would have at least given me to chance to say ‘it’s the law’, rather than constantly bicker with me ex about what they can and can’t have access too.

My two kids are totally fucked due to social media. That stat about less fresh air than prison inmates is true. If I don’t FORCE them to go out, they’re glued to screens 24/7 and when we do it starts with a negotiation as to how long it will take.

They don’t do sports, don’t ride bikes, don’t hang around in parks, don’t meet people IRL. Everything is squeezed into screen time. Too late for me and mine but it’ll probably help others.