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When families can't resolve sibling conflicts over screen time

My kids fight constantly about screen time - who gets the TV, whose turn it is on the iPad, who used more data - and I keep trying to create fair systems but they just find new things to argue about and I don't know if the problem is the rules or something else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Fairness is being pursued through systems that can't address the deeper hungers underneath the fighting.

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