Say This Parenting Conversation Cards | 50 Screen Time Scripts for Parents | Printable Phone and Tech Talk Deck | Ages 4 to 16

Screen time rules are the easy part. The moment is the hard part: the tablet goes off and the tears start, or your eleven year old asks if telling you will cost them their phone, and you have about two seconds to find the right words.

Say This is a deck of 50 cards, one for each of those moments, from age 4 to 16. The moment is on the front, often in your child's own words. What to say is on the back, with one line on why it works. None of the cards is a yes or a no. Each one is the next step, in words you can say tonight.

The cards come in five colour coded levels, one for each stage of childhood: Pebble (4 to 7), Bloop (8 to 10), Orbit (11 to 12), Nova (13 to 15) and Cosmo (16 and up). They cover the timer going off, the first phone ask, "everyone else has it", bedtime and the bedroom, group chats, strangers in games, money in games, AI, and the moments when something goes wrong online.

What you get:

• 60 cards: a cover card, how to use, five level cards, the 50 moments, a card about the app and two blank cards for a moment of your own
• Fronts and backs that line up when you print double sided, with dashed cut lines and colour that runs past the line so a small wobble never shows
• A start here page: how to print, cut and use the deck
• Five Passport stickers, one for each stage page of the Guided Childhood Passport
• A4 and US Letter in full colour, plus an ink friendly version
• A phone version: the first card of each level as a phone screen

Every script comes from the Guided Childhood app, where there are over 300 of them, along with the lessons and the stage check.

This is an instant download. Nothing is posted. Print as many copies as your own family needs. For personal use only.

I am Justin, a dad who got tired of the screen time fight. If anything will not print or open, message me and I will sort it fast.