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 our strategy was to go to complete zero. Even when we curtailed it to 10 or 15 minutes a day, she was still hooked and just waiting for those minutes to arrive.

After a few weeks of zero screentime, she began replacing the crave with imagination and her whole personality completely changed.

I do try to avoid being on screens when I'm with her and I explain that when I'm using the computer is because I'm working (which is true, I hardly ever use the computer if its not to write code)