Taking a phone away after a child has been using it can spark arguments and tears. Parents in Greystones decided to avoid that struggle by never introducing a phone in the first place. They agreed, as a community, to hold off.

Sienna Murphy, 11, is proof it works. She loves music, Irish dancing, football, and reading. But her father, Gavin, remembers the frustration when she was younger and allowed screen time.

“Every time she had screen time, she changed. Her attitude changed and she became more irritable. And if she had it for too long and you took it away from her? There was a point, when she was very young, maybe two years old, she wouldn’t eat unless the screen was on with Peppa Pig,” he says.

It isn’t only about too much time online. It is also about what a child might stumble acr

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