A grown-up says screen time is over, right in the middle of something good.. Read it together, at your pace. Every page is written in your child's voice.
1. Sometimes a grown-up says, "Screen time is over." Often it happens in the middle of something good.
2. Stopping in the middle is genuinely hard. My brain is deep inside the game or the show. Coming out fast feels like a yank.
3. The big feeling that comes is normal. Lots of kids, and honestly lots of grown-ups, feel a push-back feeling when screens end.
4. Some things make the ending softer.
ask for a two-minute warning before time is upask to save my game or finish the episodetake three slow breaths as the screen goes darkask a grown-up what we are doing next
5. Sometimes the answer to "can I finish this part" is yes. Sometimes it is no, because dinner is hot or it is bedtime. Both answers are real answers, and the no is not a punishment.
6. Here is what is always true: the game will be exactly where I left it. Shows wait. Games save. Screens are very patient.
7. The screen goes dark, and the next part of my day starts. Tomorrow, screen time comes around again, like it always does.
In the app, your child can choose what happens next, rehearse lines out loud with Spark, and try different endings — including hearing a kind "no" and being celebrated for respecting it. Parents can also create fully personalized stories.