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Family tech agreement

Write it together, sign it together, and put it on the fridge. It works best when the grown-ups follow it too.

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Our family tech agreement

Names Date We’ll review it on

Where devices live

  • Phones and tablets charge overnight at , grown-ups’ too.
  • No devices in bedrooms after p.m.
  • Screen-free times: meals, car rides, and

Time

  • School days: of fun screen time.
  • Weekends:
  • Screens off by on school nights.

Apps, games, and money

  • New apps and games get a yes from a grown-up first.
  • Accounts use real birth dates, so safety settings work.
  • In-game purchases:
  • We keep passwords

Being a good person online

  • I don’t post or forward anything about someone that I wouldn’t say to their face.
  • I ask before posting photos of other people.
  • I don’t share my address, school, schedule, or location with people I only know online.
  • If someone asks for photos, money, or secrets, I tell a grown-up.

When something goes wrong

Kids: If something online feels scary, mean, sexual, or wrong, I’ll tell a parent or another adult I trust.

Grown-ups: If you tell me, you won’t be in trouble for telling me. We’ll handle the problem first and talk about rules later.

Grown-ups promise too

  • We follow the same nighttime device rules.
  • We ask before posting photos of you.
  • We explain the reason for a rule.
  • We review this together on the date above.
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