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A recorded programme for mothers: age-appropriate limits, family agreements and calm ways to switch off — built around your child's age and your family's routine.
It usually starts small. A cartoon while you cook dinner, a phone in the car to keep the peace, a tablet during a long wait. A few months later the same child is crying on the floor because the screen has to go off, and you are standing there wondering how a small convenience turned into the most difficult ten minutes of your day.
Most advice about children and gadgets falls into two camps. One says screens are harmful and should be almost eliminated; the other says children will manage and parents should relax. Neither helps at seven in the evening, when you need dinner made, homework checked and a child who will not hand back the phone.
This programme takes a third route. It treats screens as a normal part of family life that needs structure, the same way sleep and meals do. You will look at what your child actually does on a device, what is reasonable for their age, and how to build rules that hold when you are tired, rushed or simply not in the mood for another negotiation.
The material is practical and calm. There are no scary statistics designed to make you feel guilty, and no promise that one rule will fix everything. Instead you get a set of tools you can apply this week: an audit of your family's screen day, age-by-age guidance, a written family agreement, and scripts for the moment the device has to go off.
Each ability below maps to a lesson and a worksheet you finish during the programme.
See where the hours actually go, including background TV and your own phone use.
From toddlers to teenagers, know what is reasonable and why.
A short document the whole household signs up to, not a rule imposed from above.
Timers, countdowns and phrases that make endings predictable.
Stay calm and consistent when the tears or the arguing start.
A practical list of things children will accept instead of a screen.
Scripts for the adults who quietly undermine the rules.
The settings and conversations to have before a personal phone or tablet arrives.
The programme is recorded and self-paced. Each module is a short series of video lessons you can watch on a phone, tablet or computer, so they fit into a nap, a commute or the twenty minutes after bedtime.
Alongside the videos you get printable worksheets: a family screen audit, an age-by-age reference sheet, a template for the family agreement and a 30-day plan. You fill them in as you go, so by the end of the programme you have a written routine rather than a set of good intentions.
There is no live schedule and nothing to attend. You start when you buy, move at your own pace, and can return to any lesson later. Most parents work through the material over two to three weeks, applying one module at a time, but the pace is entirely yours.
Five modules, nineteen lessons and four worksheets that you complete as you watch.
Short, focused and watchable on any device, with no live schedule.
A one-page map of where screen time actually goes in your week.
Keep it on your phone when you need a quick answer about limits.
Fill in the blanks, print it, and put it where everyone can see it.
Word-for-word phrases for the moment the device has to go off.
One small change at a time, so the routine survives the first difficult week.
Return to any lesson when your child's age or routine changes.
Work through the first modules and decide whether it fits your family.
The programme is built on a simple idea: children cooperate with rules they understand and can predict, far more than with rules that appear suddenly when an adult is annoyed. So every module moves in the same direction — first observe, then agree, then practise, then adjust.
Observation comes first because most screen conflicts are not really about the screen. They are about transitions: stopping something enjoyable, switching to something less enjoyable, and doing it on someone else's timetable. Once you can see the pattern, the fix is usually structural rather than emotional.
The second principle is that the adults in the house have to agree. A rule that one parent enforces, another ignores and a grandmother overrides is not a rule; it is a source of arguments. That is why the programme spends real time on the family agreement and on the conversations you need to have with the other adults.
The third is that you cannot remove a screen without putting something in its place. Every lesson that asks you to reduce screen time also asks you to plan what happens instead — a game, a job, a walk, a call to a friend — because a child with nothing to do will always find the device.
A few weeks in, the change is usually small and specific rather than dramatic. The device goes off at the agreed time with a warning and a countdown, and the argument that used to last ten minutes lasts thirty seconds. Your child still complains — that is normal — but the complaint no longer derails the evening.
You have a written family agreement on the fridge, and everyone in the house knows what it says. Bedtime and mealtimes are screen-free by default rather than by negotiation. You have a list of alternatives your child will actually accept, and you have stopped feeling like the only adult in the house enforcing anything.
You also have a clearer sense of your own habits. Many parents finish the programme having changed something about their own phone use, not because they were told to feel guilty, but because they saw the pattern once they started looking.
None of this means screens disappear or that your child becomes a different person. It means the daily friction drops, the rules stop being improvised, and you have a routine you can return to when life gets busy again.
Most parents spend twenty to thirty minutes per lesson and work through one module a week, so the whole programme fits into two to three weeks. You can go faster or slower; nothing expires.
No. The programme assumes you are a parent dealing with everyday screen habits, not a specialist. Every term is explained in plain language and the worksheets guide you step by step.
As soon as the payment is confirmed you receive an email with your access details. The lessons open immediately in your account, and you can start with the first module the same day.
You have fourteen days from purchase to ask for a refund. Write to support, tell us it did not fit, and the payment is returned. You do not need to justify the decision.
Recorded video lessons with printable worksheets. There are no live sessions to attend and no fixed schedule; you watch when it suits you and fill in the worksheets at your own pace.
Access does not expire. The videos and worksheets stay in your account, so you can return to them when your child moves to a new age stage or your family routine changes.
No. The programme is for the adults. Children notice the change because the rules and routines around them change, not because they sit through lessons.
Yes. One module covers children aged eleven and older, including messengers, social life and privacy. The principles are the same; the examples and scripts are adapted.
No. It is parenting guidance about habits, routines and family agreements. If a child's behaviour worries you for health reasons, speak to a qualified professional; this programme does not diagnose or treat anything.
A calmer screen routine is a few evenings of work away. Work through the modules at your own pace and keep the material for as long as you need it.