Screen time agreement meeting: agenda and tips
A 26-minute agenda to write down screen rules everyone helped make, including the grown-ups, with what to decide and how long to keep it.
The agenda (26 minutes)
- min 0Step 1: What everyone likes doing on screens5 min
- min 5Step 2: What gets in the way: sleep, homework, meals, moods5 min
- min 10Step 3: School-day and weekend amounts5 min
- min 15Step 4: Screen-free times and places4 min
- min 19Step 5: How extra time is earned4 min
- min 23Step 6: Write it down and everyone signs3 min
Decide and write down
- Daily amounts
- Screen-free times and places
- Where devices charge at night
- How extra time is earned
When and how long
- When
- before the summer holidays, a new device, or when arguments start
- How long
- 15 to 25 minutes with children from 6
- Goal
- write down screen rules everyone helped make, including the grown-ups
After the meeting, TaskFamily keeps what you decided: extra screen time in the reward shop, focus timers and chat quiet hours.
Free for one household. Premium is $5.99 a month or $49 a year for the whole family, never per child.
Keep reading
The agenda timings are TaskFamily's suggestion for the age of the youngest child at the table. The guide text is drafted with AI from these numbers and checked automatically before it is published.