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Screen time rules for kids: three rules that hold, by age, and what to say at switch-off

The tablet that won't go off, the phone under the pillow, the sentence you say every evening. Most screen fights aren't about minutes. They're about endings, places and what the adults do with their own phones. Here is what changes from two to sixteen, three rules that hold, what to say at switch-off, and the signs that mean it's time to ask for help.