I would like to have WhatsApp but my parents don't allow me because they think I'm on my cell phone for too long and so on. Then we spoke yesterday and you said we could try it. In the evening I was secretly on the laptop, unfortunately, I do that again and again even when I know I'm getting in a lot of trouble and certainly not WhatsApp. It goes on and on and I just can't go to the laptop even though I know it's not good
Clear the laptop out of your room before you go to sleep. Put it in the living room or in your parents' bedroom. Finished.
It goes on and on and I just can't go to the laptop even though I know it's not good
Here is a super simple idea.
If you constantly thirst to go to your laptop or cell phone in the evening.
Then you make sure that this is not possible. Put the laptop somewhere where you can't secretly retrieve it.
If necessary: simply ask your parents to take these things into safekeeping. Or other ways to establish that you no longer have the opportunity to approach.
If you have sensible parents and explain it to them honestly and give your devices away voluntarily. Then you will recognize that this is a sign of responsible handling and it could bring you plus points in terms of whatsapp etc. Because you show that you are able to deal with it and are also able to be honest and to get support if you are not able to adhere to it.
If you use Windows, your parents could simply make use of the Microsoft family functions and limit the usage times, of course they shouldn't take the easiest parent password that they can think of or move the laptop in at night, or You hand it over.
That's how I do it with my children, because I know my daughter in particular would be paddling around there at night. My daughter is only allowed to use the laptop between 1 p.m. And 8 p.m., outside of these times she is automatically logged out and the total usage time within this period is one hour. It will be logged out when it expires. She gets extra time when she needs the laptop for school.
On the mobile phone it has no total usage time, but also limited times in which the apps can be used. At night and during school hours, for example, she can only make calls and write SMS. If she only hangs on her cell phone outside of these hours, I tell her to put it aside and if she doesn't, she has to hand it in for an hour.