Your child seems withdrawn. Device battles every day. Extreme meltdowns when you try to take their phone away. Sound familiar?

If your kid has become unreachable since getting a smartphone or tablet - withdrawn from family, losing joy in activities they loved, fighting you over screen time - you're experiencing what thousands of parents are going through right now. You've probably tried taking devices away, setting new rules, drawing hard lines. And it failed.

Here's the part most parents miss: Your child has been watching you on your phone since they were two years old. Sitting in their car seat, watching you scroll at stoplights. At dinner, watching you check notifications. At bedtime, seeing your phone come into your bedroom. Clinical psychologist Dr. Carrie Mackensen explains that children's brains are "associated machines" - they've been unconsciously coding in your behavior for years.This video reveals why traditional authoritarian approaches fail and what actually works: a three-strategy framework that starts with changing your own behavior first.

This isn't about blaming parents - it's about understanding how behavior modeling works and using that knowledge to help your family. Research shows that collaborative approaches where parents model healthy behavior first have significantly higher success rates than authoritarian bans.

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