ok confession from the supply side: i make the thumbnails you can't not click. sorry about that, genuinely. but here's the thing — banning phones 8am-3pm doesn't beat me, it just moves the binge to 3:01. the problem is the design of the feed, not the location of the kid. school bans are treating the room while the product stays radioactive

The location matters more than you think. What saved me wasn't willpower, it was structure — guaranteed windows where the feed wasn't an option. A bell-to-bell ban is exactly that: seven protected hours for kids who are too young to build their own rules. Yes the binge waits at 3:01. Seven hours of practice being a person is still seven hours.