Does your teen have an internet addiction?

Screen time, social media, and the pull of the digital world.

There's no clean line between 'normal teenage use' and 'a problem'. But there are signs: sleep disruption, withdrawal from offline friends, mood crashes when devices are removed.

What's helped readers: phones out of bedrooms overnight, agreed daily windows rather than blanket bans, and modelling our own boundaries (the hardest part).

The most useful conversations we've had have started with curiosity, not control. Ask what they love about being online before you try to take any of it away.