BackgroundParents use diverse strategies to mediate children's digital media use, yet prior research has largely examined them in isolation using variable-centered approaches. The few person-centered studies use single-country samples and have not validated longitudinal profile stability.MethodsLatent profile analysis (LPA) and latent transition analysis (LTA) were applied to three-wave longitudinal data from the ySKILLS project (six European countries: Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland,