I thought I’d nailed screen time until my kids admitted the truth

It’s hard to admit to making mistakes as a mum (Picture: Getty Images)‘Having a computer in our basement was crack cocaine.’   It was sobering to hear this from one of my sons, now in his twenties, last week.  We’d been talking about online harm, prompted by the Netflix series Adolescence. I had been quietly relieved that none of my five children had laptops in their rooms, unlike Jamie, the show’s protagonist, who goes to some dark places