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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Guardian community team

Parents: are you happy with your child’s screen time?

What are the biggest challenges with your child’s phone use?
What are the biggest challenges with your child’s phone use? Photograph: Studio Firma / Stocksy

Whether you think being online offers educational benefits, are worried that your teenager is spending too much time scrolling Instagram, or are simply perplexed by the latest TikTok fad, we would like to know more about how parents around the world feel about their children’s screen time.

We’re keen to hear from parents with children of all ages, from toddlers to teenagers. Has their relationship to smartphones changed over time – positively or negatively?

What are the biggest challenges with your children’s phone use? What, if anything, do you wish could change? How do you think it is affecting them?

We want to hear about what’s going well too: if you have worked out an effective method for getting your child to limit their screen time, tell us about it.

If we plan to feature your story, we will get in touch with you first.

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