Screen Time Planner — Age Guidelines and a Printable Plan

How to use

1. Pick the child's age band to see the guideline.
2. Add blocks to the weekly plan.
3. Print or copy the plan and the family agreement.

General information only — not medical, financial or legal advice. Figures cross-checked against public official sources (IRS / HMRC / NHS / WHO guidance); content last reviewed September 2026. For decisions that matter, confirm with a licensed professional in your country.

About this tool

Most paediatric guidance converges on the same shape: keep screens out of the first eighteen months apart from video calls, keep two-to-five-year-olds to roughly an hour a day of quality content with an adult present, and for older children replace a single number with a plan that protects sleep, homework, physical activity and offline social time first. That last part is what usually fails, because a rule with no schedule is not a plan. This tool gives you the age range and then lets you build the week around it, block by block, and print the result.

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