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No sacred cows

Kids addicted to their screens? Don’t worry, there’s an app for that

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

13 January 2018

9:00 AM

Over Christmas, Caroline and I finally snapped about the amount of time our children were spending on their screens. If they weren’t watching Logan Paul vlogs on YouTube, they were on Snapchat or playing video games. I couldn’t get them to read anything — not even one of the wonderful How to Train Your Dragon books — and attempts to persuade them to go on walks were met with fierce resistance.

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