When You're Worried About Screens
You have counted the hours. You have made the rule, lost the rule, and made a different rule. Somewhere in there you started wondering whether the word for this is addiction.
Usually it is not. Screens are built to be hard to put down, and a kid who resents having one taken away is behaving normally rather than pathologically. The word addiction raises the stakes and then leaves you nowhere to go.
The posts here are about what is actually happening with screens and games, and why a calmer frame gives you more to work with than a diagnosis does.