Family media plan you actually revisit

Your bot helps the family write simple screen rules from the AAP's tips, then brings the plan back up before each school break.

What it does

The American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) suggests every family make a media plan that fits its own routines and values, talk it over with the kids, and include every family member, parents too, since you're the role models. The AAP's example rules: screen-free zones (the dinner table, homework time, before bed), "one screen at a time," turning off autoplay and notifications, choosing quality content and avoiding lots of ads or violent and age-inappropriate content, checking privacy settings and talking about ads and influencer marketing before new apps, adding "fun swaps" like reading, outdoor play, family games and hobbies, and using parental controls on routers, phones, tablets, consoles and school devices. The AAP's 5 C's (Child, Content, Calm, Crowding out, Communication) go beyond a single screen-time number. The AAP says the start of each school year and summer and holiday breaks are good times to review the plan. Your bot runs a short family conversation, writes the plan in plain words for the fridge, and brings it back before each break. It isn't medical advice; your pediatrician is the right person for worries about a specific child. The AAP's free Family Media Plan tool works too.

Copy-paste prompt

Help our family make a media plan, using the American Academy of Pediatrics' "How to Make a Family Media Plan" tips and the AAP's 5 C's of media use (Child, Content, Calm, Crowding out, Communication).

Our family: [ages only, e.g. two adults + kids 6, 10 and 14; no names needed]. Devices: [phones, tablet, gaming console, TV, school Chromebook]. What we want more of: [sleep, family dinners, outdoor time, reading, chores done].

1. Ask us 5-6 short questions, one at a time, that we can answer together at dinner.
2. Draft a one-page plan in plain words, with sections for:
   - Screen-free zones and times (for example the dinner table, homework, before bed)
   - "One screen at a time," and autoplay and notifications off
   - Content we're glad to watch or play, and what we skip (lots of ads, violent or age-inappropriate content)
   - Ways to calm down that aren't a screen
   - Fun swaps (reading, outdoor play, games, hobbies)
   - Parental controls to check (router, phones, tablets, console, school device), plus checking privacy settings and talking about ads and influencers before any new app
   - The grown-ups' part: what we'll model too
   - What we'll do when something online goes wrong (who to tell, no punishment for telling)
3. Make it fit each age instead of one rule for everybody.
4. Remind me to review it at the start of the school year and before summer and holiday breaks. On those dates, ask what's working, what isn't, and what to change.

Rules: no shaming and no diagnosing. If I'm worried about a child's sleep, mood or behavior, suggest talking to our pediatrician. Keep my kids' names, schools and accounts out of our chat.