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# A school year (almost) without screens
- URL: https://salvia.samadesign.dev/a-school-year-almost-without-screens/
- Published: 2026-09-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: We didn’t ban anything. We just made everything else a little more interesting.
- Author: Julien Renard
- Tags: Childhood, #Import 2026-10-07 01:52

We did not ban screens this year. We tried something gentler: making everything else a bit more tempting. A basket of books by the sofa. Paper and tape on the kitchen table. A standing invitation to the park after school.

The first two weeks were loud. Then something shifted. The children started inventing games with rules nobody else understood. Our son built a cardboard boat that took over the living room for a month.

Screens did not disappear. Friday night is still movie night, and it is better for being rare. But most afternoons now end with grass stains rather than a battle over the tablet.