Mom To Mom: Limiting Screentime

Today, we’re talking about ways for limiting screentime at your home.

Moms, I just want to catch you one on one today, and talk about how I’m controlling screen time in my own home. The first step in my summer process is my summer rules that I’ve put together. Before any technology can be used, these rules have to be checked off. Have they made their bed? Have they brushed their teeth? Have they had breakfast? The life skills have to be checked off, as well as these alternatives to technology. Reading, writing, coloring, playing outside. Anything you see on here has to be checked off before any technology can be used. And these are customizable, according to what you feel should be checked off.

Once all the checklist has been checked off, we need to implement technology tickets. The kids get 14 tickets every Sunday, and these can be redeemed for 30 minutes of technology time. When the technology tickets are used up that week, they have to wait until next Sunday to get 14 more. So, there are some rules with these technology tickets that I feel like in my household needed to be implemented, but it really depends on what’s going on with your family, and how you feel technology should be used in your home, so, every mom and dad is different.

Moms, check out my Mom to Mom Facebook page, where you can print off templates, and you can fill them in for your own home, as well as, I’d love to hear your ideas on how you’re controlling screen time in your home.

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