Screen Time: Put It Down. Please. Now.

by Kate Ellison

You said "put it down." They didn't. You said it again. Nothing. You turned off the WiFi. All hell broke loose.

Sound familiar? You're not alone — and you're not failing.

Screen Put It Down. Please. Now. is the practical 60-min fix that gives parents real strategies to take back control — without the daily battle.

Read it in just one hour and feel more confident tonight.

What's

Why screens are designed to be addictive — and why it's not your faultHow to set rules that actually stick (and when to set them)The clean handover — how to turn it off without a meltdownAge-by-age strategies from toddlers to tweensWhat to do instead — alternatives that actually workScreens and sleep — the battle after bedtimeYour screens too — the part nobody wants to talk about

60 minutes to read. Real results tonight.

No guilt. No judgement. Just honest, practical help for parents who are losing the screen time battle.

"You're not fighting a lazy child. You're fighting a billion-dollar industry. No wonder it's hard."

That shift in perspective changes everything.

Part of the Real Parent Survival Series — honest, practical books for parents in the trenches.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 25, 2026

About the author

Kate Ellison spent a lot of time as a child, in Baltimore, pretending to be things she wasn't: a twin, a telekinetic, a benevolent witch with a box full of magical stones, a spy, a soccer player. She trained as an actor in Chicago and has walked across the entire country of Spain. She is a painter and jewelry-maker, and has at least one artist friend who really does keep his true name a secret from the world. He told her, but don't ask her to tell you—she's not gonna do it. Kate lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Butterfly Clues is her first novel.