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I've been using something like Google Family Link, which works fine, except that it ties in to Google Family, along with YouTube, Play Store, Google One. I'd have to kick my sister out of the group to monitor another daughter and it means there's a limit on the number of children you have; such terrible design.

I do want to give them a little privacy and it gets to the appropriate level. Like restricting some apps at certain times, access to chrome but not xhamster. Locking it for certain periods of time and having them request more screen time past 4 hrs/day. Locking the phone whenever they've barricaded themselves in the room the whole morning.

I don't necessarily mind that they're watching YT or TikTok and such. I just want to kick them out of the doom scrolling cycle every now and then.



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