Screen Time

The Tin Can phone has no screen, no apps, no internet, no texting, and no games. It is, quite literally, just a phone. It costs $100. The waiting list is over 100,000. It has gone viral on TikTok, been profiled by Bloomberg and WIRED, and is now appearing in homes from California to Connecticut.

On 10 December 2025, Australia became the first country in the world to ban social media for everyone under 16. In the first month, 4.7 million teen accounts were removed. France, the UK, Denmark and Malaysia are watching.

A physical tote bag full of screen-free activities you reach for instead of your phone. The "analogue bag" trend is Pinterest's biggest 2026 movement, part of the bigger backlash to doomscrolling. Here is exactly what people are putting in theirs, and how to build yours this weekend.

The Journal of Pediatrics has documented hundreds of thousands of innocent photos of children, originally posted by loving parents, that have resurfaced on predator platforms. Here is what sharenting actually does, what the research shows, and how to still share what matters safely.

The old "one hour a day" rule is officially out. The American Academy of Paediatrics has replaced it with something called the 5 Cs framework.

No phones, no TV, no tablets from the moment anyone woke up until school drop-off. For thirty mornings. The first week was genuinely hard. By week four, our family would not go back. Here is exactly how it unfolded, and the system that stuck.

Seven days without recreational screens for the whole family. The first three days were genuinely brutal. Days four through seven changed our house permanently. Here is exactly what happened, what I would do differently, and the three rules we kept.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends no screen time at all for children under 18 months (except video calls)