The Screen Time Truce™: End Device Battles at Home
A Taiyib Method™ framework for reducing screen-time fights, device meltdowns, and daily power struggles using calm boundaries, co-regulation, and connection — so children can build healthier digital habits without threats, shame, or constant conflict.
Perfect for: Parents and caregivers of children ages 3–12 who are experiencing daily conflict around screen time, device limits, or technology transitions. No prior knowledge of child development is required — just a willingness to try a new approach.
Every day, millions of parents dread those four words: "Five more minutes, please." What follows — the crying, the arguing, the full-on meltdown — can derail an entire evening and leave everyone feeling terrible. You're not failing as a parent. You're just using tools that were never designed for the digital age.
This course gives you a complete, research-backed system built on how children's brains actually work. Drawing from child development science, co-regulation theory, and attachment-based parenting, you'll learn why screens trigger such extreme reactions in kids — and more importantly, how to restructure your household routines so that turning off a device becomes unremarkable. No more countdown warnings that get ignored. No more confiscating tablets in anger. No more guilt.
In just seven days of focused, practical lessons, you'll build a family-specific Screen Peace Plan: a personalized set of agreements, transitions, and emotional tools that fit your child's age, temperament, and your household's real life. You'll also learn how to repair past patterns, stay regulated yourself when things get heated, and have the honest conversations with your kids that actually stick.
By the end of this course, screen time will be one of the most boring parts of your day — and that's exactly the goal.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the neurological reason screens trigger meltdowns — and why willpower-based approaches backfire
- Build a personalized Screen Peace Plan with clear, age-appropriate limits your child actually accepts
- Use co-regulation techniques to stay calm yourself when your child escalates
- Execute smooth, low-conflict device transitions using proven transition rituals
- Replace threats and countdowns with cooperative language that gets results the first time
- Repair the emotional damage from past screen battles and rebuild trust with your child
- Hold a productive Family Screen Agreement conversation with children as young as 4
- Maintain the system long-term without constant re-negotiation or backsliding
Curriculum
7 modules · 21 lessons
Your teacher
Inas Shabazz
Hi, I’m Inas Shabazz, creator of The Taiyib Method™. I am a Child Development Architect, Career ROTA Nanny, and childcare educator with 25 years of hands-on experience working directly with children in homes, classrooms, and ultra-high-net-worth private households. I have supported children through meltdowns, bedtime battles, sibling conflict, screen-time struggles, morning chaos, travel transitions, divorce, blended family dynamics, neurodiversity, anxiety, big emotions, and the everyday moments that can either strengthen a family or wear everybody down. What I have learned is this: Children are not born bad. Most of the time, behavior is communication. A child may be overwhelmed, disconnected, tired, overstimulated, anxious, seeking control, or simply missing the rhythm and support they need to do better. The Taiyib Method™ was created to help parents, guardians, nannies, educators, and caregivers understand the child beneath the behavior — and respond with calm, connection, structure, and clear boundaries. This work is personal to me. Taiyib means pure, good, wholesome, and of excellent character. It is also rooted in the legacy of my mother, Taiyibah Shabazz. Her love, wisdom, and care live inside this method. I created these courses because every family deserves access to the kind of intentional child development support that is often only available to families with private staff, specialized educators, or high-level caregiving teams. You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to have all the answers. You just need a framework that helps you understand what is happening, know what to do next, and lead the children in your care with more peace, confidence, and love.
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