Phone Goes Here: Screen Time Rules for Kids, Scripts for the Arguments, and a One-Page Family Agreement

It's ten to five on a Tuesday. You have one hand on a pan, and the screen rule you set last month is nowhere in the room.Most screen-time advice argues for limits. This book starts where you actually live: the four seconds when a timer rings, a game isn't finished, and a grandparent hands your four-year-old a phone.You'll get rules built to survive a real week. A parking spot for devices that does the arguing for you. A bedroom rule you can enforce without searching rooms. Separate rules for games and for video, because they're hard to stop for opposite reasons. A weekday shape for the hours between the school door and lights out, plus a screen-free activity list your kids help write. Word-for-word scripts for "e;five more minutes,"e; "e;everyone else gets to,"e; and "e;you're always on your phone."e; A plan for grandparents, sitters, sleepovers and two-household families. And a one-page family agreement you can fill in this weekend.There's also a chapter for the rule you already set too loose, with a step-by-step way to tighten it without a war.No brain-science lectures and no guilt. Just short, plain rules for kids from toddlers to teens, written for tired parents who need something that works on Tuesday.If your screen rules keep falling apart by Thursday, start here.