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When parental controls create more conflict than protection

I set up parental controls on all our devices but my 15-year-old keeps finding ways around them and now it feels like we're in some kind of digital arms race that's poisoning our trust.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technical solutions to behavioral concerns transform the parent-child relationship into an adversarial power struggle.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Screen time technology and raising digital children?”

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