Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?
Parent of three ranging from tween to college age.<p>We have never had limits on anything. Screen time&#x2F;content unrestricted. Probably dozens of times, maybe hundreds, we have had &quot;the talk&quot; about how there&#x27;s a lot of weird shit in the world, internet included, and it&#x27;s better to know about that stuff and how to deal with it than to create a temporary secure enclave at home where it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>We especially didn&#x27;t want to pawn off our responsibility as parents onto their future 18-year-old college-bound selves to learn how to deal with excesses. Since the moment they could point, they&#x27;ve been given the opportunity to make mistakes with excess. They&#x27;ve fallen thousands of times, we&#x27;ve picked them up thousands of times, and now they&#x27;re pretty good at not falling.<p>You can guess that I love CI&#x2F;CD, stable trunk, etc., in my day job. My attitude as an engineer&#x2F;parent is you&#x27;ll never make bugs&#x2F;threats go away. So make sure you and your team&#x2F;family are experts at dealing with them while they&#x27;re fresh and small.