September 14, 2025 • 4 mins
Hayley has found a few ways to get her kids off their phones and tablets and she wants to share them!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart apps.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All Right, if you are a mum or dad or grandparent,
care whatever, you may be in a situation like I'm
in with where screen time is a real issue in
my house. In my household iPads and phones. Thirteen year
old phone is obsessed. But the biggest issue for me
is the ten year old with the iPad, and it's
(00:37):
all the roadblocks, and it's all the games, all the
stuff that you don't know who they're talking to.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And he just gets so dark every time.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
He's on his hotail. When they've been on it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You tell the second he comes out of his room
and he just looks like a zombie and he's dark
and just angry at the world. And takes about half
an hour and then he goes snaps back into like
fun out for you again?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Is that worth shutting them up for an hour or whatever?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, sit So we do as parents everything we can
to get them off screens, but there is a time
for it, and that time is when we're busy doing
something and na, can you know it should just be
thirty minutes or whatever. But it doesn't they sneak it
into their rooms. They'll fight it find it if we
hide it. So I've discovered a bunch of things that
will help. The number one thing that I found helped
(01:23):
was so bloody good. On Friday night we went to
a caravan park West Beach and for twenty four hours
him and his best mate were jumping on the pillow,
they were playing on the playground, they were meeting these friends,
are running around, they're playing with soccer.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They not once asked for the iPad, which is a
big deal. Like they were having so fun. I know
you can't do that all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So the number one tip is go to West Beach
parks with your friends. You know what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So it's getting them outside and doing stuff with them,
like getting out of the house because they love that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Kids love that more than anything.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Right, easy number one tip, Number one tip and number
two tip. This was one I'm stealing from one of
my other dad mates. He has bought a safe in
his house.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He's got three kids.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Is brought a safe with a lock and every night
every kid puts their phone, puts their iPad in the
safe and you don't get it until the next morning
and if they're naughty, they can lock it up and
it can be there for a month. Buying is safe.
You can get a really cheap safe from kmart. Go
and get a safe and it's a cool thing because
the kids can't get in it, and you need to
know the pin to each other. Yeah, isn't that weird?
(02:29):
They just talk to each other. Another one that I
haven't tried, and I probably need to try this as
someone who's also addicted to my phone, is going gray scale.
So this is where your phone takes away all the color.
It's dull and it makes it less exciting when you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Look at it. I can tell you how to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If you have an iPhone, this will make your there
will be no color like you whatever app you open,
you scroll Instagram and everyone is in black.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And white and you don't get that dopamine here.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's in settings and it's not one of those set
You can tell that it's a proper setting for your
brain because it's in the settings, and then it's in
the accessibility menu.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Rah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So you're going to go to accessibility and then you
go on like display and text size, and then there's
color filters. It's tough to get to, but select the
gray scale filter, gray scale filter, and your whole phone
is black and white.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And also when you're doing the black and white, you
have all the sounds off too, because that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'll be in the shower and I'll hear ding and
then I'm like, oh, what's that?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Like turning sounds off, turning colors off. And for us
as well, that's worked. Two things is you have deals
with other parents, so that Alfi's best friend. They play
on the iPad together all the time, so we have
a deal with our parents going, well, he doesn't have
his iPad, so you don't get your iPad. So it
makes him go, okay, well my mate's not playing with
it as.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Well certain times, and then that makes a kid feel better.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, and then we earn yeah yeah, because then their
mate's not playing with it, so they won't play with it.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I know that Haley's not on my phone on her phone,
so it's okay because.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They play together, they play, they play against each other,
whatever they do.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And then the other one thing that I do is
you've got to earn it back.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You take it away, and then you get the kids
to do the chores, take out the bins, wash the windows,
massage your feet, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Even then, though, massage my feet for screen time. Yes,
that happens in your household all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I'll look across.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I've got one kid doing the bins, and then Austin,
my thirteen Arrold will be massaging Jimmy's feet.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Just needing your husband's feet. No, but it works. You
have to give up your phone at the end.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I mean, I need all this stuff. I need to
go grayscale.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You do too.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You've been on your phone. You have been on your
phone all morning.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I've been doing work.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, but you're but still it's an addiction. That's what
I say to my dad. I'm happy I'm not work,
but I'm just scrolling.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'll do no work for the rest of the show.
I have no idea what's coming up next. You need
to go to a caravan.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Mark
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the free iHeart apps.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All Right, if you are a mum or dad or grandparent,
care whatever, you may be in a situation like I'm
in with where screen time is a real issue in
my house. In my household iPads and phones. Thirteen year
old phone is obsessed. But the biggest issue for me
is the ten year old with the iPad, and it's
(00:37):
all the roadblocks, and it's all the games, all the
stuff that you don't know who they're talking to.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And he just gets so dark every time.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
He's on his hotail. When they've been on it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You tell the second he comes out of his room
and he just looks like a zombie and he's dark
and just angry at the world. And takes about half
an hour and then he goes snaps back into like
fun out for you again?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Is that worth shutting them up for an hour or whatever?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, sit So we do as parents everything we can
to get them off screens, but there is a time
for it, and that time is when we're busy doing
something and na, can you know it should just be
thirty minutes or whatever. But it doesn't they sneak it
into their rooms. They'll fight it find it if we
hide it. So I've discovered a bunch of things that
will help. The number one thing that I found helped
(01:23):
was so bloody good. On Friday night we went to
a caravan park West Beach and for twenty four hours
him and his best mate were jumping on the pillow,
they were playing on the playground, they were meeting these friends,
are running around, they're playing with soccer.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They not once asked for the iPad, which is a
big deal. Like they were having so fun. I know
you can't do that all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So the number one tip is go to West Beach
parks with your friends. You know what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So it's getting them outside and doing stuff with them,
like getting out of the house because they love that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Kids love that more than anything.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Right, easy number one tip, Number one tip and number
two tip. This was one I'm stealing from one of
my other dad mates. He has bought a safe in
his house.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He's got three kids.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Is brought a safe with a lock and every night
every kid puts their phone, puts their iPad in the
safe and you don't get it until the next morning
and if they're naughty, they can lock it up and
it can be there for a month. Buying is safe.
You can get a really cheap safe from kmart. Go
and get a safe and it's a cool thing because
the kids can't get in it, and you need to
know the pin to each other. Yeah, isn't that weird?
(02:29):
They just talk to each other. Another one that I
haven't tried, and I probably need to try this as
someone who's also addicted to my phone, is going gray scale.
So this is where your phone takes away all the color.
It's dull and it makes it less exciting when you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Look at it. I can tell you how to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If you have an iPhone, this will make your there
will be no color like you whatever app you open,
you scroll Instagram and everyone is in black.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And white and you don't get that dopamine here.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's in settings and it's not one of those set
You can tell that it's a proper setting for your
brain because it's in the settings, and then it's in
the accessibility menu.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Rah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So you're going to go to accessibility and then you
go on like display and text size, and then there's
color filters. It's tough to get to, but select the
gray scale filter, gray scale filter, and your whole phone
is black and white.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And also when you're doing the black and white, you
have all the sounds off too, because that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'll be in the shower and I'll hear ding and
then I'm like, oh, what's that?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Like turning sounds off, turning colors off. And for us
as well, that's worked. Two things is you have deals
with other parents, so that Alfi's best friend. They play
on the iPad together all the time, so we have
a deal with our parents going, well, he doesn't have
his iPad, so you don't get your iPad. So it
makes him go, okay, well my mate's not playing with
it as.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Well certain times, and then that makes a kid feel better.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, and then we earn yeah yeah, because then their
mate's not playing with it, so they won't play with it.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I know that Haley's not on my phone on her phone,
so it's okay because.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They play together, they play, they play against each other,
whatever they do.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And then the other one thing that I do is
you've got to earn it back.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You take it away, and then you get the kids
to do the chores, take out the bins, wash the windows,
massage your feet, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Even then, though, massage my feet for screen time. Yes,
that happens in your household all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I'll look across.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I've got one kid doing the bins, and then Austin,
my thirteen Arrold will be massaging Jimmy's feet.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Just needing your husband's feet. No, but it works. You
have to give up your phone at the end.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I mean, I need all this stuff. I need to
go grayscale.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You do too.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You've been on your phone. You have been on your
phone all morning.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I've been doing work.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, but you're but still it's an addiction. That's what
I say to my dad. I'm happy I'm not work,
but I'm just scrolling.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'll do no work for the rest of the show.
I have no idea what's coming up next. You need
to go to a caravan.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Mark
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