A way to cut screen time

WANT to reduce the amount of time your children spend on their phones? Take a leaf out of my book – and cut your screen time too.

Every evening at 6pm, I put my phone in a drawer for one hour and encourage the children to do the same. We think it makes us more connected as a family, and now there’s a study to prove it.

Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada found that parents staring at their phone for more than two hours daily were three times more likely to have young children who did the same, compared to those who rarely used their phone.

But we shouldn’t need a study to tell us what is essentially common sense.