Post January 13, 2024 1 min read

An Automatic TV Timer For The Kids

Screen time discussions used to happen every single evening in our house. Now the house handles it instead of us.

As soon as the Apple TV goes on, a timer starts running in the background. When the kids’ daily budget is used up, the TV switches off by itself — no reminder, no argument about whether it has been an hour already.

In our house this rule has one very happy supporter and two rather unhappy ones. I will let you guess which is which.

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