TRUCE Family
Instill healthy smartphone habits within your family, and easily set boundaries around technology. TRUCE Family helps parents automatically block apps during specific timeframes or locations to protect children’s homework time, family quiet times, school times, and more.
A Smart Solution to a Growing Epidemic
Three-quarters of parents say managing how much time their teen spends on the phone is an important or a top priority. Meanwhile, 72% of high school teachers say student smartphone distraction in the classroom is a major problem.
Parents, teachers, school administrators, medical professionals, academic researchers, and politicians have raised serious concerns about young people’s excessive exposure to cell phones. The evidence is clear: Children’s mental health and academic performance is at stake. TRUCE Family offers a proven solution.
How TRUCE Family Promotes Child Focus and Wellbeing
Instead of storing phones in lockers and pouches, or requiring students to leave phones at home, families can use software to help them comply with school cell phone policies.
TRUCE Family supports flexible, common-sense policies:
- Restrict harmful phone use during specific times or in particular locations.
- Keep specific apps available for valuable educational purposes, students’ schedules and homework, or urgent communication with parents.
- Easily installed as an app with parents’ permission on children/students’ phones.
We Respect Child and Family Privacy
TRUCE Family works by suppressing or enabling specific mobile apps as defined by the parent/guardian to comply with school cell phone policies. TRUCE Family does not access photos, videos, passwords, browsing history, texts, email content, or application activities.
Explore the Impact of Phone Distraction on Kids
Screen Exposure & Child Development
Research finds that excessive screen time can harm executive functioning, sensorimotor development, academic outcomes, and language development.
Experts Rally to Stop Student Phone Distractions
U.S. senators Tom Cotton and Tim Kaine have formed a bipartisan alliance to study the effects of smartphone use in schools on student learning and wellbeing.
An Anxious Generation
Psychologists, parents, and school staff have observed clear links between rising phone addiction and anxiety, loneliness, and academic decline.
Interested in Trying TRUCE Family?
Be among the group of families, schools and community members taking a stand against smartphone addiction and distraction through proven mobile technology.