The Best Advice I Got About My Child’s Smartphone Addiction

Great tips from readers

SG Buckley
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 19, 2021

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A year ago, I wrote a story called My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone. It went viral— 219k views — with hundreds of people commenting.

Some readers called me an idiot for the way I’d handled things; others made me laugh. Some shared experiences so painful I cried…

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SG Buckley
Forge
Writer for

Writer, editor, parent. Former staffer at Quartz, WSJ and Inc. magazine.