Guides for parents
Straight answers to the questions parents ask most about phones. With sources you can check, and without the finger-wagging.
Limiting your child's phone time: what really helps
How much phone time is fine for your child, and how do you set limits without arguing every day? Expert guidelines and approaches that hold up in daily life.
5 min read
Arguing about the phone: how to calm things down
The same argument about the phone every evening? Why it keeps happening and how rules you agree on together make the fights noticeably rarer.
4 min read
Family media agreement: how to write one together
What belongs in a family media agreement, how to put it together with your child and how to keep it from ending up in a drawer. With a free template.
4 min read
Set up Screen Time on your child's iPhone (iOS 27)
Set up Screen Time for your child on iOS 27: child account, schedules, time allowances, allowed contacts, Ask to Buy and the passcode, with every menu path.
8 min read
Phone bans at school: the rules and what parents can do
Which phone rules apply at schools in each German state, what research knows about bans and how your child learns to handle the phone themselves.
7 min read
When should a child get a smartphone? Expert advice compared
When should a child get a smartphone? What German health and media experts advise, when kids really get one, and which apps only allow them from 13 or 16.
7 min read
Blocking apps without a fight: how it works with kids
Block apps for your child without every evening turning into a negotiation: set times, choosing together and a clear way to end early.
4 min read
How kids get around Screen Time and how to stop it
How kids get around Screen Time on the iPhone, from a known passcode to the browser, and which of Apple's own settings close each gap.
7 min read
How to block TikTok on your child's iPhone
Block TikTok on your child's iPhone, completely or only at certain times: with Apple's Screen Time, TikTok's Family Pairing, and without forgetting the website.
6 min read
How to block YouTube on your child's iPhone, Shorts included
Block YouTube on your child's iPhone: the app with Screen Time, youtube.com in the browser, and only Shorts with YouTube's own time limit for parents.
7 min read
First phone for your child: what to set up before day one
Your child's first phone: prepaid or contract, blocking third-party billing, an Apple child account, WhatsApp's minimum age and the rules to agree first.
8 min read
Ocean plastic in numbers: what really ends up in the sea
How much plastic reaches the sea, how much is already there, and what part do ghost nets play? The key numbers with sources, explained plainly.
7 min read
Why we 3D-print every BlueTag ourselves in Berlin
The BlueTag is the key to TaskBlue. That is why we 3D-print every one ourselves in Berlin from plant-based PLA, assemble it by hand and pack it.
4 min read
Fewer distractions for your child. Less plastic in the sea.
A year costs €49.99 once, a month €9.99. The BlueTag always comes with it.