Like many parents, Andrew* and Maggie* battled with their child over his creeping device time. “We grew up in this era where screen time was this great evil,” Andrew said. “There’s all the stories about Silicon Valley executives who refused to let their children anywhere near the technology they were working on.” But that idea was flipped on its head when their eight-year-old son, Jordan, was diagnosed with autism and reports of “disruptive behaviour” at school began trickling home.
