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Now, because this is one of the few ways she can keep in touch with her friends, I’m reluctantly letting her borrow an old iPhone that I had sitting in a drawer-but with limits. My pre–COVID-19 plan was to wait until eighth grade to hand her a smartphone. In our house, I quickly realized that I couldn’t keep lending my iPhone to my 10-year-old so that she could FaceTime her friends in the middle of the day I needed it for work. Corinn Cross, a pediatrician in Los Angeles and a spokesperson for the AAP, advises: “While limits are still important, it’s understandable that under these stressful circumstances, kids’ screen media use will likely increase.” The American Academy of Pediatrics-which once recommended limiting screen time to one to two hours a day for young kids and keeping those younger than 2 away from screens altogether-recently acknowledged that this is an unprecedented time. And that’s okay: Experts say increased screen time is part of the new reality of living with COVID-19.

Between online classes, virtual playdates, multiplayer games, and a newfound obsession with the reality show The Masked Singer, my kids have spent more time during the coronavirus pandemic staring at screens than ever before.