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Research-backed family tools for the parts of parenting nobody tells you how to navigate. Starting with screens.
What's in the free pack
A complete protocol you can print and start using today. Research-grounded. Family-tested. Designed to be done together.
A 7-day screen log for every family member — including parents. No rules yet. Just honest observation.
A step-by-step Family Meeting guide with exact conversation prompts. Build agreements together — not rules handed down from above.
A daily tracker for your Reset Week. Two minutes at dinner. Tracks mood, not just minutes — because how your kids feel after screens tells you more than the clock does.
Your closing family meeting. Review what worked, rate each agreement, and decide what comes next — together. No guilt. Just iteration.
Why it works
Most parenting content tells you what to do. These tools walk you through how to actually do it — with your specific family, in your specific home.
Every phase is built on evidence — from Self-Determination Theory to Przybylski & Weinstein's nuanced screen-time findings. The research is cited so you can share it with skeptical partners and older kids.
Children are more likely to follow agreements they helped create. Every tool in this pack is designed to involve kids — not lecture them. That's not just philosophy. It's the science of behavior change.
No app to download, no subscription to set up, no account to create. Print the PDF, sit down with your kids tonight, and start Phase 1. That's it.
The research behind it
Children who help create agreements show dramatically higher follow-through than those given top-down rules. Every manamou.to tool is built around co-creation.
Screen time isn't uniformly harmful. What matters is whether it's displacing sleep, movement, and face-to-face connection — not the raw hours.
"If-then" planning — the backbone of our agreement structure — has decades of evidence behind it as one of the most reliable behavior-change techniques available.
About manamou.to
manamou.to makes family tools — not content, not courses (yet), not advice columns. Just well-designed, research-backed protocols for the situations where parents most need a clear process to follow.
It was started by a parent in the middle of figuring this out, not one who already has it sorted. Every tool is tested in a real family before it reaches yours. The messy bits stay in.
More tools are in progress — covering family meetings, homework conflicts, the first phone, and the transition to the tween years. The Screen Reset Pack is where it starts.
Start today
Eight pages. Five phases. One honest conversation with your family. Print it tonight.