📱A screen budget, not a verdict.

At home the fight stopped the day we stopped counting by the day. A weekly budget the child spends themselves — here is how to work it out.

Build the budget

Child’s age

Public guidance runs from "no screens" under 3 to roughly 2 h of leisure a day for teenagers. Count school screens separately

3 h

Homework, research, online lessons. Keep them out of the leisure budget, or revising becomes a punishment. Weekend share

45 %

The part of the budget kept for Saturday and Sunday. At 50 %, half the week happens in two days.

How they spend it

An indicative split, to negotiate with them

Where we stand

A budget gets discussed, a ban just gets dodged.

The day we swapped a daily quota for a weekly budget, two things changed: the negotiating stopped, and Émilie started deciding for herself between a film on Saturday and two sessions midweek. That was the whole point.

Read where we stand on screens →

Usage benchmarks, not a prescription. What matters as much as the duration: what is watched, with whom, and at what time.

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