Free printable · K–5
Family screen time & AI agreement
One page to print, fill in and sign together. It covers where the iPad and phone live, screen time on school days, bedtime, and how your family uses AI. You fill in the blanks, so the rules are yours.
What’s on the page
- Our electronics: where the iPad, tablet and phone live, about how many minutes of screen time on school days, when electronics go off before bed and where they spend the night.
- Our AI rules: AI only with a grown-up, “Think first, then ask,” “Check the answer,” “Keep your own ideas,” and never typing private things. Grades 3–5 add a line for what AI may and may not help with.
- Always: tell a grown-up if anything feels weird or scary, because nobody gets in trouble for telling. Then one more rule your family picks together.
How to use it
- Print the version for your child’s grade. Each one fits on a single Letter page.
- Read each line out loud and fill in the blanks together. In K–2, let your child hold the pen for at least one of them. In grades 3–5, your child writes at least one.
- Sign it, all of you, and put it where everyone will see it.
- Pick a date to read it again, and change anything that isn’t working.
AI and homework at your house
The grades 3–5 version has a rule for AI and homework: “Homework is ours. AI can explain an idea or make extra practice, but it doesn’t write, solve or draw anything we hand in. If AI helped, we say so.”
If you use AI to help with homework, our free homework pages give you the prompts: one that gives hints instead of answers, and five checks before you trust its math.
Your school’s AI rules come first. This agreement is for home.
Most AI chatbots require users to be 13 or older. At home, a grown-up holds the device or runs the AI. This agreement is something your family writes together. It isn’t a safety rating and doesn’t certify anything.
