Take action
Screens fill many toddlers’ days because each family’s sensible choice adds up to a world no one chose. Problems like that are solved by many families moving together.
The four commitments
- None before two. Video calls with family are the one exception, because a person on a video call can answer.
- From two to five, a little, slow and shared, and none at meals or in the hour before bed.
- Screen-free rooms for the youngest: every infant room, toddler room, preschool and kindergarten.
- Ask the question everywhere a young child is seen: at every checkup, every early-intervention intake and every child-care enrollment, “How many hours a day is a screen on, and when?”
They can be held by families, child-care programs, pediatric offices and lawmakers at once, and they mean the same thing in every language.
Choose your page
- For parents
- For child-care providers and early-years teachers
- For schools, towns and policymakers
- For book clubs
General information, not medical advice. If you are worried about a child, talk with the child’s doctor.
The full plan, the evidence and the letters you can copy are in the book.