“We're arguing about screens”

Predictable windows, visible endings, and fewer negotiations at six o'clock.

Family Meetings · Guide
The Meeting Where the Rules Get Rewritten
Rules set for a nine-year-old rarely fit a thirteen-year-old. Here is how to renegotiate them deliberately, before they are broken into obsolescence.
25 minutes, once or twice a year
Routines · Ritual
The After-School Routine: Helping Kids Transition From School to Home
After school is a transition, not a time slot. Food, quiet, and a delay on questions will do more for the evening than any homework schedule.
The first 40 minutes
Routines · Guide
An Evening That Lands
Evenings go wrong in a predictable order. Reversing two of the steps solves most of it.
3 hours you already have
Routines · Guide
The Screen Rule That Survives a Tuesday
Screen rules fail for a predictable reason: they are written on a calm Sunday for a household that only exists on calm Sundays.
One decision, then ten seconds a night

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