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Smarter Start Toolkit

Developed in partnership with UScellular, the Smarter Start Toolkit guides parents on how to foster their child’s relationship with tech. This compelling, complementary kit provides education and activities to engage with your child on developing healthy digital habits as they embark on their first-phone journey.

Preschool Plugged-in Planner

The Preschool Plugged-in Planner covers a variety of digital health topics, including the importance of device-free zones, managing screen-related meltdowns and keeping little ones safe online.

Elementary School Plugged-in Planner

The Elementary School Plugged-in Planner covers a variety of digital health topics, including preparing children for online hazards, creating healthy screentime rhythms and engaging with technology in higher quality ways.

Middle School Plugged-in Planner

The Middle School Plugged-in Planner covers a variety of tech-related topics, including smartphone introduction, preparing children for social media and understanding the mental health side effects associated with screens.

Screen Sanity Group Study

Our hallmark product, this interactive handbook is broken down into six video-guided sessions (plus four bonus chapters!) that are specifically designed to spark face-to-face conversation with others in a casual group setting.

Social Media Playbook

This is a parent-child workbook for starting powerful conversations about social media. Families are prompted to dig deeper into the purpose of social media in their lives and question the false standards it places on its users.

Mi Guía Para las Redes Sociales

This is a parent-child workbook for starting powerful conversations about social media. Families are prompted to dig deeper into the purpose of social media in their lives and question the false standards it places on its users.

Babysitter Guide

Our free Babysitter Guide is a helpful tool for quickly and easily sharing important information with your caregivers, including phone numbers, activity ideas and your family’s screentime boundaries.

Parent Guide: TikTok

A guide to popular social media app TikTok, which lets users share 15-second videos.

Parent Guide: Snapchat

A guide to Snapchat, an app in which users exchange pictures, videos and private chats — however, these snaps disappear after the receiver closes them.

Parent Guide: Pornography

A guide for protecting your children from early porn exposure.

Parent Guide: Sexting

A guide to protecting your children from sexting, which is a combination of the words “sex” and “texting.”

Driver’s Ed Approach Parent Guide printed out on clipboard

Parent Guide: Digital Driver’s Ed

Before you hand your child the keys to a car, they spend years shadowing you in the backseat, followed by a learner’s permit. This download shares the same “ride, practice, drive” approach for device and app introduction.

Video Game Decision Tree

A one-page download for parents to use as a guide for placing boundaries (and avoiding meltdowns) related to video games.

Smartphone Toolkit

Before you introduce your child’s first phone, download our Smartphone Toolkit to help prepare yourself and your child — as well as the new device! — so risks are at a minimum.

Parent Guide: Cyber Bullying

A guide to protecting your children from bullying in the online world.

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Starting Points for Digital Health

This one-page download prompts parents to think through Screen Sanity’s five digital health principles: Start with Yourself, Tables + Bedtimes, Accountability, Ride.Practice.Drive, and Time Well Spent.

Parent Guides

Visit our Parent Guide Library for informative downloads on today’s trending tech topics, including everything from TikTok and Snapchat to pornography and sexting.

Products We Love

View our curated list of products — devices, filters, books and more — to help your family navigate screentime with safety and intention.

Family Fun

Ready to find a healthier screen-life balance? Here are a few light-hearted activities to help build stronger connections with your kids and community.