The first weeks of school have a way of reopening every screen negotiation at once — homework and tablets, the show before dinner, the phone at bedtime. If it feels like your family reinvents the rules every night, this episode is for you.
It's a short one — about ten minutes — and it's a walk-through of a free workbook that already exists. Child psychologist Dr. Kirsten Kuzirian takes the family screen agreement from the Family Digital Wellness Guide and turns it into a plan — one family meeting, twenty minutes, one sheet of paper, and three agreements everybody at the table helped write, built on your family's values rather than a running count of screen minutes.
In this episode:
- When to hold the meeting — and why the right morning is worth waiting a week for
- Four questions that surface your family's three values, the foundation the plan stands on
- An honest inventory — which technology serves and sustains your family, and where the easiest agreements live
- Writing the plan as a team — "we agree to," "our family chooses" — and why three agreements is plenty
- Tuning it by age, from timers little ones can watch to collaboration with teens
- What to say when an agreement gets tested — curious, not furious — and the repair that keeps a team project a team project
Mentioned in this episode:
- Family Digital Wellness Guide — free at wideawakeparenting.com/freebies. The episode walks through it step by step; the printable sheet will be waiting when you're ready.
Wide Awake Parenting is educational content distributed by Wide Awake Media, LLC. It is not therapy, not assessment, and does not establish a therapeutic relationship.
