Health

I Asked My Husband To Set Up Parental Controls To Stop My Screen Binging And It Worked

I took a deep breath and handed my husband my phone. “Here goes nothing,” I thought. He typed in his Google password, and that was it – fairly painless, yet somehow annoyingly shameful. “No one has to know, I guess,” even though I knew I would overshare this new personal endeavor with my friends and family within the hour.

By Meg Anzalone4 min read
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I’ve been on a quest for screen health for over two years now. I’ve tried focus apps, a dumb phone, a minimalist phone, deleting social media, a phone key, and now my latest experiment: parental controls. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the best tools to combat screen addiction are the ones you actually use.