How much phone time for a child

A 13 year old that’s homeschooled and acts that way doesn’t need a phone at all 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think 13 is still a bit too young for a phone anyway and the only reason should be to stay safe while not at home. If she’s already acting that way then she doesn’t need one. Like someone else said, it’s a privilege and she’s very clearly not earning that.

My 13 yo phone is a privilege. If his phone was affecting his school work I would take the phone away until he understands that school comes first. Right now during spring break I'm more lenient with how much he uses his phone but even then, I don't want my kid glued to his phone.

Make sure that you and your husband also don’t sit there being on your phones - lead by example. I would leave my phone in one place out of sight every day kind of like a house phone

Stop paying for it so she can’t really use it anymore, control then wifi. She seems to be addicted to her phone and she can’t concentrate on anything else. Maybe do this until she starts listening and doing her homework, then compromise with her and tell her she can use it with this much screen time. If she’s got apple there’s screen time in there.

My 12 year old is homeschooled as well (started prior to this virus). She has a flip phone for when she goes to activities, which hasn’t been anything outside of dog walking and bike rides honestly right now. It can text using T9 and make phone calls. 😂So “phone time” isn’t really an issue at our house.After her school work is done for the day, she gets up to 2 hours of computer time a day. (Computer is in living room, so we can see what’s she’s doing at any time.) Up until the quarantine, she would maybe be on there for an hour or so, now she pushes it playing games with her friends online. Since she can’t go out and do all the things she used to, we’ve allowed more electronic time temporarily.

We have a loose schedule for phones. We take their phones at night, they don’t get them back until the next day they’ve done their chores, read for 30 minutes, and finished their schoolwork. Then they can get their phone until bedtime. Usually this stuff ends around 2-3pm. They don’t have their phones during dinner time or if we do a family activity. We go to bed at 9 so it’s taken then. We don’t have to remind them to do these things though or get onto them for their phone. We implemented these rules when they first got them.

Discontinue it and change your wifi password.

Make sure all school work is done and they read a chapter or 2 and then they can have as much screen time as they want 🤷🏻‍♀️But if the grades are slipping and they are straight up neglecting their education then I’d put stricter restrictions on the phone. A 13yr old doesn’t really need a phone (I didn’t get one until I was able to pay for it myself) but if she wants the phone she has to do better

High school teacher here. I know your daughter isn’t high school aged yet, but my experience is that 90% of teenagers are glued to their phone pretty much all day.

Put her in school is it possible that she finally made friends online and you are ACTUALLY stopping her from talking to her? People who are homeschooled don’t have actual physical interaction with real people her age sign her up for regular school for a year or two and let’s see how it goes!