Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A My Child is Addicted to Gadgets

What advice would you give regarding children that are

addicted to gadgets and refuse to give them up?

It's very difficult to say because it depends on how they got into

them in the first place. And,

uh, personally, the way we have it is that nobody is allowed to play

this in the weekdays in our house, they're only allowed to play for a

certain number of hours in the weekend, right, because you have

to allow something because otherwise, then they're gonna go

somewhere else and try to find it or buy something secretly and do

it. So you have to just time it and you have to be firm. I think

the mistake here in many cases is that the parents are not firmed.

And they're crying about it. They don't have any discipline in the

house, they just allow them to do whatever they want. And now

they're crying about Oh, it's too much. So you have to have some

form of discipline. And at the end of the day number two, in order to

encourage them, you need to cite reviews and statistics and studies

and things about how harmful these are. If your child children are

old enough to read these things and understanding for yourself,

find them online and other places and then make them read them and

talk to them about it. But at the end of the day, you need to put

your foot down if you just totally abandon unless it's like

punishment for a while that's different, but unless you totally

if you totally banned him that's very difficult to do and could be

counterproductive. But the other way is to just restrict their

time. Just restrict their time. That's the best way to do this.

Allah