Coaching practices for Shared Phone Norms Home

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• It’s hard to put my phone down when everyone else in the house is glued to theirs
• We sit down to eat together and within minutes everyone, me included, is half-glancing at a phone on the table
• There’s one place where the phone really costs me something
• My phone follows me into every room of the house, and I pick it up without even deciding to
• I walk in the door physically home from work but mentally still at the office, scrolling and half-there for the first hour

Practices that may help

1. Get buy-in from others who share your home
   A solo foyer commitment is willpower; a shared household norm is architecture.
   The Phone Foyer Method
2. Use the phone stack at social meals
   At meals with others, all phones go face-down in the center of the table — first to reach loses.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
3. Extend the method by declaring one room phone-free
   Choose one room — dining room, bedroom, or bathroom — as a phone-free zone to reinforce the foyer boundary.
   The Phone Foyer Method
4. Designate a charging station at the entry point of your home
   Place a charger by the front door and make it your phone’s default resting place when you arrive home.
   The Phone Foyer Method
5. The Phone Foyer Method
   The phone foyer method is a habit design practice: leave your phone at a charging station near the entrance of your home instead of carrying it room to room. By removing the phone from your default physical environment, you reduce the reflexive checking that happens when a device is always within arm’s reach. Evidence is primarily mechanistic — rooted in friction-based behavior change and research on the cognitive cost of phone proximity.
6. Build a brief transition ritual around the station
   Create a two-step arrival ritual: phone on charger, then one non-digital action that signals you are home.
   The Phone Foyer Method
7. Use a dumb-phone or phone-free period during a defined daily window
   Designate a daily window during which your smartphone is replaced by a basic phone or put away entirely.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
8. Redesign your home screen as a tool, not a feed
   Your home screen should contain only task-completion tools — nothing whose primary function is to pull you in.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
9. Create a physical device handoff spot
   Designate one spot where all devices live during the sabbath — out of arm’s reach.
   The Digital Sabbath
10. Replace checking with a scheduled pickup window
    Instead of picking up the phone whenever the urge hits, designate two pickup windows per evening.
    The Phone Foyer Method

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