Evidence-based screen time guidelines broken down by age, including what the numbers mean for your child's specific developmental stage.
When screens start wars
Screen Sanity Course
You set the screen rules. Your kid found six ways around it. This course covers limits that hold, the transition meltdown, and how to build a kid who turns it off themselves.
Rules that hold, transitions that don't end in a meltdown
Covers toddlers through teens, including phones and social media
8 illustrated lessons. Audio narration included.
What's inside
8 lessons with illustrated guides and audio narration.
How screen exposure affects emotional regulation, sleep architecture, and attention span, and which effects are reversible.
Transition strategies that prevent meltdowns when the screen goes off, built around how your child's brain processes shifting attention.
A structured plan for dialing back when screen habits have gotten out of control, without turning your household upside down.
Age-appropriate alternatives your child will genuinely choose, organized by developmental stage and interest type.
When to introduce a phone, what rules to set from day one, and smartphone alternatives worth considering.
Age-appropriate conversations and technical safeguards that prepare your child before exposure happens, not after.
How to recognize when your child is being targeted online, what protective measures actually work, and when to intervene.
It's evidence-based
Grounded in developmental science. Not just our opinion.
Which skills are trainable at which age, how children develop systems thinking, when critical reasoning emerges. That comes from decades of developmental psychology research. We studied the science, then built activities that work in real family life.
Bruce D. Perry
Psychiatrist behind the neurosequential model and the critical "Regulate, Relate, Reason" sequence used to connect with distressed children.
Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Authors of The Whole-Brain Child, providing foundational strategies for integrating logic and emotion to nurture developing minds.
Stephen W. Porges
Creator of Polyvagal Theory, identifying the distinct nervous system states of safety, fight/flight mobilization, and shutdown.
Adele Diamond
Neuroscientist specializing in executive functions, defining the biological developmental limits of impulse control and reasoning in young children.
Bruce E. Compas
Researcher on coping styles, distinguishing between helpful regulation and harmful strategies like suppression, avoidance, and rumination.
John Bowlby
The father of attachment theory, establishing that secure emotional bonds are the absolute prerequisite for independent emotional regulation.
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Common questions about Screen Sanity
This course covers strategies for children from toddlers through early teens. Each lesson includes age-appropriate variations so you can adapt the approach to your child's developmental stage.
Free advice gives you isolated tips. This course gives you a complete system: sequenced lessons that build on each other, with scripts you can use word-for-word and illustrated guides for quick reference in the moment.
Each audio lesson is 15–20 minutes. Designed to fit during a commute or nap time. The strategies integrate into moments you already have with your child, so there's no extra schedule to maintain.
Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. If you don't find it valuable, you don't pay.
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Family Screen Rules Agreement
a printable family contract for screen time rules — kids and parents sign together, covering when, where, how long, and what happens when rules are broken.