The lockdown habit that’s hardest to break: using an iPad as a babysitter | Emma Brockes

How am I supposed to wean my children off screens when they know I’m addicted too?It started, last March, as an act of necessity – sticking the kids on iPads all day so I could make a hard deadline that fell six weeks into lockdown. There was no way around this; at five years old, my kids couldn’t manage their Zoom schedules or self-entertain for long without fighting, and I couldn’t break off every two minutes to help them. Overnight, kindergarten and after-school disapp