{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/protect-one-interaction-critical-family-routine-from-device-interruptions",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1148",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Protect one interaction-critical family routine from device interruptions",
  "summary": "You do not need a phone-free life to create a reliably phone-light moment.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Choose one repeatable interaction where responsiveness matters and make unplanned device checks the exception. The evidence links parental technology use in a young child's presence with small differences in several developmental and psychosocial outcomes, but it is mostly observational. Treat the routine as a practical boundary experiment, not a proven developmental intervention.",
  "limits": [
    "Do not turn this into a purity rule. Devices can support work, safety and parenting; the underlying research reports mostly small associations rather than proof that this exact routine improves child outcomes."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-family-digital-presence"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-3632E48A64FE432A"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In children younger than five, parental technology use in the child's presence was associated with small differences in cognition, several psychosocial outcomes, attachment and child screen time in the reported meta-analyses.",
      "source_id": "RS-3632E48A64FE432A",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The associations were small, most included evidence was observational, and the review does not establish that a specific device-free routine causes better developmental outcomes.",
      "locator": "Abstract and Results"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Selected acute-interruption studies in the review found more child bids for attention and negative affect during some device interruptions, while other outcomes and studies were null or mixed.",
      "source_id": "RS-3632E48A64FE432A",
      "role": "contextualizes",
      "note": "The experiments were heterogeneous and short term; they do not justify treating every necessary device use as harmful or claiming one interruption-management script is validated.",
      "locator": "Narrative Synthesis"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Work messages, AI chats or ordinary phone checking repeatedly enter play, reading, meals or another routine with a young child."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Do not turn this into a purity rule. Devices can support work, safety and parenting; the underlying research reports mostly small associations rather than proof that this exact routine improves child outcomes."
  ],
  "example": "During a shared bedtime book, the phone stays on a charger outside arm's reach while urgent family calls can still ring through.",
  "check": "Across the next week, the chosen routine usually runs from start to finish without an unplanned device check.",
  "steps": [
    "Pick one short routine that happens often enough to matter.",
    "Park the device out of easy reach or silence ordinary notifications before the routine starts.",
    "Keep a separate route for genuinely urgent contact.",
    "If the boundary repeatedly fails, change the environment or timing instead of relying on willpower."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-3632E48A64FE432A",
      "title": "Parental Technology Use in a Child's Presence and Health and Development in the Early Years: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis",
      "url": "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2833506"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-439378623D2C5D42",
      "title": "Protect parent-child attention when work and devices can follow you everywhere",
      "url": "/collections/protect-parent-child-attention-when-work-and-devices-can-follow-you-everywhere"
    }
  ]
}