Family Technology Agreement
A short written agreement that applies to adults as well as children.
Most people's digital lives were never designed — they accumulated. Apps arrived, notifications stayed on, habits formed around whatever was easiest. Intentionality is mostly a matter of deciding things on purpose that were previously decided for you.
Good for: households negotiating the same argument every evening
- 01
Everyone answers: what do we want more of at home?
- 02
Agree three phone-free contexts, not phone-free hours.
- 03
Write the adults' commitments first.
- 04
Agree what happens when someone forgets — before it happens.
- 05
Revisit each school term. Children grow; agreements should.
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