My wife asked me to put screen-time limits on our son's iPad.
I agreed.
He was averaging 6 hours a day.
She was averaging 7 hours and 12 minutes.
This created an obvious governance problem.
So I enrolled both devices.
Our son gets 2 hours of games.
My wife gets 2 hours of Instagram.
She discovered this at 9:14 PM when Instagram disappeared.
She asked me what I'd done.
I told her household controls needed consistent enforcement.
She said she's an adult.
I said so am I.
Then she asked why my phone had no limits.
Administrative accounts require unrestricted access.
She changed the Apple ID password.
I lost control of the entire environment.
Our son now has 6 hours again.
My wife has 7.
I've been demoted to user.
And I'm sleeping on the couch.