Screen Time Family Contract

How the contract is put together

Nine steps, in a fixed order, and each one writes its own section of the document: who is in the family, weekday limits, weekend limits, device-free zones, device-free times, approved content, how screen time is earned, what happens when the agreement is broken, and what the adults are signing up to. The contract at the end is your answers laid out for signature — nothing is scored, nothing is recommended, and no limit is suggested.

That last point matters, so it is worth being blunt about it. You enter each child's name and age, and then you set each child's limits yourself. The tool does not read the age and propose a number of hours, and it does not change its language for a six-year-old and a fifteen-year-old. Age is on the page because a contract with an age beside each name is easier to revisit in a year, not because we have an opinion about the right daily figure. We do not, and no published guideline is precise enough to hand out per child without knowing the child.

What the page does have an opinion about is the process. Every section is written to be filled in with the child in the room, and the ninth step exists because an agreement where only the children have obligations is the kind that lasts a fortnight. Adults sign it too. Everything you type is printed straight from the page, and there is no account.

Every figure above was read out of the code that runs on this page. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published one, the note says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 21 August 2026.