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7 tricks (and apps) to track your kids' time on your smartphone

It's inevitable. The fascination for the younger people with the use of the smartphone is so great that each time soon they end up having their own handset. And this is when they are already used to using their parents' smartphones or siblings regularly. So how to manage this situation, since we can not always be with them to control the usage time?The solution can be mobile and other services that allow you to effectively account for and limit the amount of time your smartphone is available for use by its user, in this case a child. And the resources you find in the gallery below may serve exclusively for this purpose or even be embedded in more comprehensive parental control systems.In fact, experts assure that it is not only the content consumed by the youngest on the smartphone that should concern parents and caregivers. It is also important to prevent them from spending more time than is advisable to look at the screen, even if what appears there is suitable for the age or harmless.We must admit, however, that the parental control and time control tools that are part of the smartphone operating systems themselves are increasingly complete and effective. A good example is the Screen Time feature that recently came to iOS with version 12. But features like this may not be enough ...Regardless of the influence of technology on children (and of the possible ways we can use it to solve this potential problem), there is always a way to "push" the younger ones off the smartphone and other electronic devices.In family or friends, it is up to the elders to challenge the younger ones to try out non-technology playful activities. And the answer may even be more positive than we expect, since a view also espoused by experts in the subject says that even the visas yearn for moments when they do not feel "forced" to respond in time to the stimuli that arrive through the mobile terminals .Our advice then goes through the following: start with the simplest, naturally try to push the kids away from the smartphone, obeying the daily number of hours that they think is reasonable. If it does not work, the "celebrated" trick of swapping household chores for longer to deal with digital equipment can result...below the apps that may be useful:
-Screentime (play.google.com)
-Kids Zone (play.google.com)
-Boomerang (play.google.com)
-ScreenLimit (screenlimit.net)
-Google Family Link (families.google.com/familylink)
-Kidslox (kidslox.com)
-FamilyTime (familytime.io)


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