Screen Free Week

Are you ready to change your family’s relationship with screens?
Join us for Screen-Free Week, a global invitation the first week in May to take a break from entertainment screens and experience more peace, connection, and fun!

Experience Screen-Free Week – Screen-Free Week
Our Screen-Free Week story.
Spending time on screens can be particularly harmful to kids who need creative play to thrive. That’s why Henry Labalme and Matt Pawa created TV Turnoff Week in 1994.
In 2010, TV Turnoff Week became Screen-Free Week, finding a new home at Fairplay through December 2024. On January 1, 2025, the American Association for the Child’s Right to Play, also known as the USA affiliate of the International Play Association (IPA USA), was honored to assume the reins and continue the mission.
Thirty years later, we’re wiser about kids and screens… but also facing more complex problems.
In the past, we were concerned about kids being a captive audience for the marketing of products on TV. Today, OUR KIDS have become the product–their attention, their preferences, their connections, their content, their locations are all being captured, tracked, bought, and sold between tech giants and brands worldwide.
Our goal is to monitor and educate the community about this new reality and to advocate for kids to have the dignity of privacy and play. Taking even a small break from screens the first week in May (or, whenever works best for you) is how to begin that journey.