Sport, music, friendship, first jobs, pocket money and independence, the parts of a young life shaping what a person later watches and plays.
The signs are quieter than you'd think: a phone turned face-down, a favorite game abandoned, a joke about 'drama' that isn't a joke. Here's what the evidence says to watch for, and what to do next.
Three separate voluntary systems label the screens in your home, each run by different people and each measuring different things. Here is who assigns them, what the labels mean in their own words, and where the research says they fall short.
Children learn phone habits from what you do, not what you say — here's how to model the relationship with your phone you want them to copy.
Which parts of kids' fitness apps actually move children — and which features are borrowed from adult fitness culture.
What the evidence actually says about screens at the table — and how families run mealtime rules without mutiny.
How one nature documentary a week became the family ritual that actually sticks — and why co-viewing makes it educational.