For When Screen Time and Homework Land at the Same Hour

Four lines you can say out loud tonight. Word for word. Free to save.

What to say

1. Homework first, screen after. That order doesn’t change on school nights.

2. Coming home and not getting the tablet right away feels like a punishment.

3. Twenty minutes of homework at the kitchen table with the tablet face down beside it.

4. When the last page is done you pick it up yourself. I don’t hand it to you.

When to use it

This is for the moment it actually goes wrong — not the calm version you rehearse in the car. Pick one line. Say it once. Then stop talking and wait three seconds. If they push back, repeat the same line, not a new one. Say the same thing for five nights before you decide it doesn't work.