Using Built-in Parental Controls
Xbox consoles come equipped with robust parental controls that allow you to manage screen time effectively. You can set up family accounts and use the Xbox Family Settings app or the console itself to impose restrictions. This includes setting daily limits on gaming time, scheduling specific play hours, and blocking access to certain games or features [2:2]. These tools are designed to help parents enforce rules without needing constant supervision.
Creating a Balanced Routine
Establishing a balanced routine is essential for managing screen time. Many parents find it helpful to create a schedule that includes time for other activities such as reading, sports, or chores [2:6]. By integrating these activities into daily life, children can develop a healthy balance between screen time and other pursuits. It's important to communicate clearly about expectations and consequences related to screen time.
Leading by Example
Adults often struggle with their own screen time management, which can impact how they enforce rules for children [2:3]. Leading by example can be a powerful tool in teaching children about moderation. Parents should consider limiting their own screen time and engaging in non-digital activities, especially before bedtime, to promote better sleep and overall well-being
[2:4].
Utilizing External Tools and Resources
In addition to built-in Xbox settings, external tools and resources can assist in managing screen time. There are apps available that track usage across devices and provide insights into habits, helping families make informed decisions about adjustments. Additionally, educational resources can offer strategies for promoting healthier digital habits [2:5].
Community Support and Advice
Joining parenting forums or communities can provide support and advice from others facing similar challenges. Sharing experiences and solutions can help parents find new ways to manage screen time effectively. Engaging with others who have successfully implemented screen time limits can offer practical tips and encouragement [2:7].
My cats aren't like that. All of them hold court around me pretty much all the time.
Hence the user name.
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Just limit lor. U r the parent u set the rules. My kids finish screen time liao then just read books play sports or fight w each other. Just bask in the chaos and continue resting
Reply like a true battle hardened parents. No idea why any parents think it is a good idea to let their kids have screen time the moment they get out of school. On the way back, during meal time, after Meal, before sleep.
A large part of the problem lies in the adult and partially society norms.
Majority of the time , adults spent time on screen , and OT (and lack of energy for parenting)- the screen time for adult is huge.
Adults need to learn first how to manage their screen time , then we can talk about parenting with lesser screen time.
I’m a parent. I pick my kid age 2+ from playground at 6+. Buy dinner reach home around 7. Eat dinner finish usually 730. Get to finish bathing her at 8pm.
So who’s going do the housework? Clear the trash from dinner? Dont you guys need check your emails or sometimes just have to reply urgent?
Really no choice 8-9pm screen time so we can do some chores.
Then is reading before bedtime.
So before you blame it on parents, we do not have any rest and really need that hr to do everything.
FYI: 1hr is really not enough. After our girl goes to sleep we have to continue the chores til late.
I put the kids to bed then we do chores… kind of sucks for us adults, because we gave up on any evening “me” time. It’s just kids-chores-bedtime. At first I think we mourned not being able to have “me” time, but not looking at screens before bedtime also means we sleep better.
Pick up kid from childcare at 7pm, then bring kids to playground for half an hour to run around, then there is less evening time after their dinner to do things lol.
Adults dont even limit their own screen time
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On Facebook I have seen a lot of posts saying PS3 vs Xbox 360. It's very heated, just as the console war was during that time. The same arguments were used. PSN was free, PS3 had bluray and the stronger selection of single player exclusives. Xbox 360 had more multiplayer exclusives and a stronger and a more reliable internet connection. PS3 had yellow light of death, Xbox 360 had red ring of death.
Anyway, there's a massive amount of people who are saying that PSN was just as good if not better than Xbox Live. I have owned and gamed on both consoles and there was no way I could see this as true. I refuse to believe that anyone who thinks that PSN is just as good has never gamed on Xbox Live. I have had a friend that gamed on a PS3 for years and then I found an Xbox 360 for cheap and gave it to him as a gift so he could play CoD with me and my friends. He never went back to his PS3 for the rest of that generation.
So I come to you guys. For anyone who actually genuinely played online games on both consoles, was PSN anywhere as good as Xbox Live?
I've never owned a PS3 myself, but I remember reading that folks behaved a bit worse on PSN. My personal explanation is that people treat a paid account with an subscription differently to a free one. Also you had this rating-system on Xbox Live.
What I can tell you is that in 2014 PSN was equally as good as Xbox Live.
I used both back then — matchmaking/stability felt similar to me, and 360 definitely had the superior interface (especially after Sony neutered the PS3 store around the PS4’s launch), but PS3/Vita online being free is what won me over in the end, since I didn’t have much to spend back then. I’ve rarely purchased Gold since 2015, mainly because I hate supporting Microsoft’s lack of Gold family share on the 360 and there aren’t many people on anymore
This! PS3 was free, if you upgraded to Plus you got extra online storage space but you didn’t really need to if you didn’t want. X360 forced me into securing LIVE, but few games are active anymore. I liked the keyboard attachment for the X360 controller but by the time I got it I was done
Xbox 360, as in, all parts of the online experience was better back then for me.
As in, using UI in the stores, grouping up and messaging friends, online game stability, latency, all of it. It just was rather expensive compared to PSN and it is not like that was necessarily bad. Just a bit less good in my experience.
The PS3 players who say that the online gaming experience between PS3 and Xbox 360 was the same... would it be safe to assume they never actually played on Xbox Live back then?
Perhaps that could be true but I am not sure. Don't think it can be safely said it would be the case for all scenarios.
Can imagine online experience wise there could have been regional differences for example.
Never been a fanboy of anything, but I remember that I could easily download like 10 games easily on 360, but I think it took years for PS3. Had a loading to make it download one game in the background, the bigger the game the longer it was to wait just to make it download in the background.
Then... You had to stupid install the game. Here goes another hour.
Oh, now I can start it. Hahaha NOPE ! There goes the 2gb patch that you didn't download yet. Here goes another hour.
Yeah, back then it seemed like whenever I glanced over at my brother on his PS3 he was waiting for something to install/download.
As a modern PS3 owner it’s even worse now with some updates being in the 10 gig range plus the Xbox 360 is definitely superior in that the game updates are still much smaller and generally much quicker
To me back in the day, I had friends with both but I had 360. Even though I had to pay for Gold, it was a great gaming experience. Back then, it seemed everyone was on the same playing field connection wise. Ps3 was similar but because I had way more inconsistencies online, I felt it was inferior. I liked the free part, but getting into a lobby on COD4, I would have a lot more shots, that I would normally hit on Xbox, pretty much be non existent. Just my opinion though.
Google maps is down.
Ok thank you I thought it was my account
Can’t answer but I’m experiencing the same since today.
Wait until it happens when you’re competing with someone else. RIP.
Sorry I know this doesn’t answer your question.
Im experiencing this too on mobile
I even tried tablet no luck but now I know why Google maps is down
yes another thread says it’s gmaps has been down for 3 hours
yeap everyone is facing this issue, dont play ranked guys 💔💔
One important aspect of the show to me is that it is one of the first crime shows to regularly do on-location filming. Only a few series had done this before, and usually very sparingly. To me it makes the stories much more believable and exciting when filmed at real locations.
This made Mannix (and soon after Hawaii Five-O) stand out from contemporary shows like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Mission Impossible, which were still very focused on sets and the studio backlot.
Can we add I Spy to this equation of on location shows??
Where are you watching mannix? Is it on streaming or DVD?
Yes, I would say I Spy was one of an elite group of early adopters of regular on-location filming:
Highway Patrol
Naked City
Route 66
I Spy
Mannix
Hawaii Five-O
There were others of course, but they usually just used exteriors for brief transitions, not for major scenes.
I Spy stands out for its use of international locations, which is extremely impressive. Very, very few American TV series have attempted to do that, even today. Although at the same time I Spy is also very dependent on sets, and the transitions are sometimes a little jarring. I recall a scene where there is a thrilling chase on foot through the streets of Hong Kong, and then the action abruptly cuts to an obvious Batman '66-ish studio set for a fistfight. Which is clearly back in the U.S., as the nationalities of some assailants have suddenly changed as well.
Everybody I knew watched it when I was young. There have been times in my life when I've asked myself the question, "Well, what would Mannix do?"
Joe gets punched in the head in every episode, Peggy is in the latest 60’s fashion and the cars are a gear heads dream.
And at least once a season, an "old buddy" from the Army will show up to try and murder Mannix
Cars will not blow up until Mannix is running far enough away from them that he will basically be okay.
"fast-paced car action"
Gail Fisher was great in the role of Peggy.
I grew up in a town of 300 people that had one restaurant. She had family in the area and when she stopped by for lunch, it was a big deal.
I'm 65 yrs old. Have been watching Mannix when it showed brand new in the late 60's, and still 👀 watch it every night. Mannix is just cool as fuck
He had a custom Olds Toronado for a bit. That was a cool car.
I still like the theme song.
Funny you mentioned that. While reading your comment I was able to fire up the jukebox in my brain and play that theme song.
It's a great show, especially the early episodes. There is something very stripped down, straight ahead about the writing and production. Not a lot of superfluous distractions. Plus, there's Peggy.
Spoiler alert! #snerk
Excellent writing and acting...
Someone needs to count how many times he got knocked out
And by that I mean big screen time is just TV. Like maybe mom and dad are watching a non-kid show while baby is in the room sort of paying attention but there’s no context for them to understand it. Or little one watches a kid movie or cartoons. And little screen time is independent use of a tablet or phone by little one. Where they could be watching youtube, short form videos, or playing games.
Wondering this because I do have the TV on a lot for background noise, but it’s all adult shows. Is this really damaging to my child if it’s not really a kid show and there’s no context for a child to understand it? I will never give my child a tablet, but am I already messing her up with “big” screen time?
> Like maybe mom and dad are watching a non-kid show while baby is in the room sort of paying attention but there’s no context for them to understand it.
Yes, this would still count as screen time as it has been studied (at least in this study).
>Methods
>This Australian prospective cohort study used speech recognition technology to understand young children's screen exposure over an average day. Data collection occurred every six months when children were 6, 12, 18 and, 24 months old (n = 207). The technology provided automated counts of children's exposure to electronic noise. Audio segments were then coded as screen exposure. Prevalence of screen exposure was quantified, and differences between demographics examined.
I have had this question for a while - if electronic audio exposure is coded as screen time in this study, what does this mean for radio? Are there any studies looking then at parallels between radio exposure pre-TV vs background audio now?
I have that question too. What about podcasts, or even TV playing but the child isn’t facing it so there’s no visual component? I think a lot of what we know about how damaging screen time is, is that it’s that dopamine hit that kids get from a short form video like tiktok, or a highly overstimulating show like cocomelon. Or iPad games with no educational value.
The findings on this are just talking about how much screen time they get on average, not what it’s doing to them.
I'm gonna reply to you because I have no research, but there are a bunch of anecdotes in this Twitter thread supporting big screens over small ones.
This top comment is from Kelsey Piper, an EA data journalist, so someone who is very used to taking an analytic approach to things & hangs in a crowd that does the same. So this isn't academic research, but there are a lot of reasonably clever people observing that they've seen this in action and speculating as to why it might be.
> My most bespoke parenting opinion is that big screens are perfectly fine for kids but small screens are bad. We have a projector in our living room with a huge 6'x10' screen. When the kids watch things on it, they are in motion. They roll around giggling; they climb on the couch, they burrow in the blankets; they wander off, they talk to each other and to you. When something hilarious happens they'll jump up and down with excitement; when something scary happens they'll snuggle up. And if they're bored they'll walk away. After five minutes of My Little Pony on the big screen this morning, the baby declared "done!" and left. > > This is not how they act with an iPad or phone playing the exact same content. They act way, way more glued to the screen. I don't think the baby has ever told me "done!" when handed an iPhone playing Sesame Street. I think the tiny window means their focus is narrowed, and the screen ends up being kind of all-consuming, whereas a big screen is more like a window through which interesting things are happening; a feature of the room, but not the only thing in it. Also with an iPad or phone, a baby wants to interact, press buttons, shake it, move it, but all possible actions just interrupt their show and frustrate them. > > We still sometimes resort to a phone as a distraction on long car trips, but my intuition here is that the form factor matters a lot.
There was a theory I saw which kinda made sense, about the focus/peripheral vision of a tv vs a screen.
If you’re watching on a phone or an iPad, it takes up majority of your vision, but a tv in a room means your peripheral is kinda still engaged?
I’d be surprised if that didn’t have an impact on the sort of hyper fixation people who watch on small screens all the time have vs someone who watches mostly on a tv.
Obviously the type of content has a massive impact and makes a bigger difference, but it’s still a small thing - we try to limit stuff seen on a phone (mostly photos we’ve taken) vs watching a tv show or film on the tv instead.
That is SO kid dependent and really nothing more than an anecdote. My kid is a zombie, even in front of big screens.
Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for sharing this study. I don’t doubt that the “big” screen counts as screen time, more so wondering if it’s as harmful as “little” screen time.
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I am selling my Legion Go and getting the Xbox Ally X. I love my Go, but the ergonomics just kill my hands.
I'm in the same boat with my Legion Go. The Xbox Ally X is pretty tempting.
Yeah the Xbox style grip on the Xbox Ally X seems like a gamechanger in ergonomics. It may not look pretty, but a heavy device needs that.
Is the Ally X OLED screen though? Gotta have OLED.
We already knew Xbox FSE (full screen experience) was coming to other devices, but Lenovo are the first to officially confirm it for their upcoming Legion Go 2. That launches two weeks after the Xbox Ally, on October 31st, but Xbox FSE won't be available on it until Spring 2026.
Per the article:
>- The Asus ROG Xbox Ally and more powerful ROG Xbox Ally X will be released on October 16 and will feature the ‘Xbox full screen experience’ (FSE), a new mode that boots the handheld straight into an Xbox app instead of loading the full Windows shell.
>- By not booting the entirety of Windows, Microsoft says the Xbox FSE will allocate more system resources to running the game, meaning performance is optimised.
>- Although Asus’s handhelds will be the first to feature the Xbox FSE, it’s not permanently exclusive to those systems. Xbox will be rolling it out to other devices, including the original Asus ROG Ally and Ally X, over time.
>- Now, in an interview with The Verge, a Lenovo spokesperson has confirmed that the Xbox FSE will be coming to its newly announced high-end Windows handhelds at a later date... Lenovo spokesperson Jeff Witt told the publication that it would be coming to the handheld in Spring 2026.
>- The Lenovo Legion Go Gen 2 will also be released this October, and boasts an 8.8 inch OLED screen, a 144Hz refresh rate, removable controllers and a similar AMD Ryzen processor to the ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. It will cost $1,099 for the base model, all the way up to $1,479 for the model with the most powerful processor, 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage.
Is there an option to exit out of Xbox FSE and use Windows 11?
Yes, you can launch into the full desktop at any time, or even disable the full-screen experience entirely, or in the future change it to another app like Steam Big Picture potentially, as seen in the Settings menu shown in all the hands-on videos.
I mean, the Xbox Rog Ally isn’t going to be that much cheaper
That’s what PC handhelds go for
This is using the same processor as the Xbox Ally X. But it has an 8" 1200p, 144Hz OLED screen, and removable controllers (one that can be used as a mouse), and a touchpad on one controller. Those are huge deals for some people to make up the $1-200 difference. Based on the leaked European pricing of 900€, the Xbox Ally X is expected to be somewhere around $900-1000 USD.
But then you must have bought some of these devices on a discount, since the Series X plus the PS5 alone is already a grand. With the current pricings for all these four devices I come more close to $2K.
But the point is clear, of course. Keep in mind, however, that consoles are generally lower in price than handheld PCs because the companies don't aim at making money off of console sales (they even effectively lose money by offering them at a lower price). Instead, the idea is to get players into their ecosystem so that they spend money on games in the store.
In case of the handheld PCs, like the Legion Go, Lenovo or Asus really want to make money by selling these devices, since their production ain't cheap. This is why I hope that Xbox will still make its own handheld sometime in the future, as this could also potentially be cheaper in price than a handheld PC.
It's both. First and third party Xbox Consoles, and third party Xbox PCs, Xbox Laptops, Xbox Handhelds. Xbox Cloud is handled by MS only.
The Xbox Ally has a lot of Armory Crate's functionality (TDP control, game profiles, etc) incorporated into the Xbox guide menu, so other OEMs presumably have to do some work to integrate their own equivalent software before they can ship it.
You should contact meta, and ask about RMA under warranty if it needs to be fixed. They will technically still do it for secondhand devices, but they are strict with the warranty time period.
Which oculus device
You can try using the update tool to reinstall the entire OS. If that doesn't fix your issue I think you'll need to contact Meta support or a 3rd party repair service as it's likely not a software but hardware issue.
Ok I will try these thank you
How to limit screen time on Xbox
Here are some effective strategies to limit screen time on Xbox:
Set Up Family Settings:
Schedule Playtime:
Use the Xbox Console:
Encourage Alternative Activities:
Communicate Expectations:
Monitor Usage:
Recommendation: Using the Family Settings app is highly recommended as it provides a user-friendly interface to manage screen time effectively. This way, you can ensure that gaming remains a fun and balanced part of your child's routine.
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