assessment assessment testWelcomeSection ASection BSection CSection DSection ESection FSection GScreen Time Assessment In the next 30 questions, you will explore your child’s screen habits across seven important areas of digital wellbeing, from sleep and self-soothing to relationships, gaming, and AI use. Your responses will help create a personalized picture of your child’s current digital habits, highlight areas of strength and concern, and identify practical opportunities to support healthier balance. Read each question and select the option that best reflects your child’s behavior over the past 30 days. Answer based on what you typically observe rather than on an unusually good or difficult day. Thoughtful, accurate responses will help make the results more meaningful and useful for your family.BackProceedSection A: Screen Use Frequency & Duration These questions explore your child’s screen use patterns: how often they engage with digital devices, how long those periods tend to last, and how technology is balanced with sleep, learning, relationships, movement, and other daily activities1. How often does your child use screens (phone, tablet, gaming console, or computer) for more than 4 hours a day for entertainment, outside of schoolwork? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always2. How often does your child pick up their device within the first 10 minutes of waking up in the morning? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always3. When your child is bored, waiting, or left alone, how often is their first instinct to reach for a screen? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always4. How often does your child's screen use expand significantly on weekends or school breaks, with no natural stopping point? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 AlwaysPreviousNextSection B: Loss of Control & Compulsive Use These questions explore whether your child has difficulty stopping, limiting, or managing screen use. They are designed to identify everyday patterns of self-control and digital habits, not to determine whether compulsive use, addiction, or any other clinical condition is present.5. How often does your child try to cut back on screen time but fail to follow through? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always6. When screen time is taken away or limited, how often does your child become intensely distressed, angry, or inconsolable beyond what seems age-appropriate? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always7. How often does your child lose track of how much time has passed on screens and seem genuinely surprised when hours have gone by? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always8. How often does your child continue using screens even after agreeing to stop, or after being told they've had enough? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 AlwaysPreviousNextSection C: Self-Soothing & Emotional Regulation These questions explore whether your child uses screens for comfort, distraction, or to manage difficult emotions. They are intended to help parents recognize everyday coping patterns and consider whether a broader range of healthy, age-appropriate coping strategies may be helpful.9. When your child feels anxious, sad, lonely, bored, or upset - how often do they turn to a screen as their first response, rather than talking to a friend, engaging in sports, arts, music or engaging in other activities? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always10. How often does your child use screens to avoid dealing with conflict, stress, or difficult feelings at home or school? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always11. When your child is overwhelmed, how often are screens the only thing that seems to calm them down? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always12. How often does your child's mood improve almost immediately when given access to a screen and drop when screens are taken away? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always13. How often does your child avoid situations where screens won't be available such as family outings, camping, or visits to relatives? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 AlwaysPreviousNextSection D: Sleep Disruption & Physical Health Research from the University of St Andrews (2025) found associations between pre-sleep screen use and sleep-related outcomes in adolescents. These questions explore your child’s screen habits around bedtime, sleep routines, and everyday physical wellbeing.14. How often does your child use screens within 60 minutes of bedtime? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always15. How often does your child secretly use their phone or device at night after being told the lights are out? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always16. How often does your child appear tired, irritable, or foggy in the mornings in a way that suggests poor sleep? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always17. How often does your child complain of headaches, eye strain, neck pain, or other physical discomfort linked to screen use? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 AlwaysPreviousNextSection E: Social Relationships: Real vs. Virtual This section explores one of the most nuanced aspects of digital life: the role of online friendships. Research suggests that online connections can provide meaningful opportunities for belonging and support, while also raising questions about balance when they begin to replace in-person relationships and offline social experiences.18. How often does your child choose to spend time with online friends rather than meeting face-to-face with local friends or family? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always19. How often does your child treat online friendships with people they've never met in person as their primary social relationships? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always20. How often is your child more emotionally open and communicative online than with people in the same room? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always21. How often does your child withdraw from activities, clubs, sports, or gatherings they once enjoyed in order to spend time online? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always22. When you ask your child about their day, how often do they refer primarily to online interactions rather than in-person ones? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 AlwaysPreviousNextSection F: Family, School & Real-Life Impact These questions explore how screen habits may relate to family connection, school participation, daily responsibilities, and overall day-to-day functioning.23. How often does screen use cause conflict in your household arguments, broken rules, or tension at mealtimes? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always24. How often has your child's academic performance, homework completion, or engagement in school suffered as screen use has increased? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always25. How often does your child check their phone or device during family meals, outings, or conversations? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always26. How often does your child become secretive, defensive, or dishonest about what they are doing online or how long they've been on screens? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 AlwaysPreviousNextSection G: AI, Gaming & Responsible Tech Use This section explores your child’s use of AI tools, gaming, and other digital experiences, including their awareness of design features that may encourage continued engagement and their ability to use technology thoughtfully, intentionally, and responsibly.27. How often does your child turn to AI chatbots or AI companion apps for emotional support as a substitute for human conversation? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always28. How often does your child spend significant time gaming in immersive online environments in a way that is difficult to interrupt or limit? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always29. How often does your child use apps, social media, games or AI tools without recognizing or questioning how features such as endless scrolling, notifications, recommendations, or AI-generated content may influence their attention, choices or behavior? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always30. How often does your child use screens primarily for passive consumption or entertainment videos, scrolling, gaming rather than for creative projects, learning, or building practical skills? 😊 Never 🙂 Rarely 😐 Sometimes 😔 Often 😫 Always Previous Submit