CONSCIOUS DISCIPLINE AT HOME · EVERY SCREEN BUILT SO FAR, IN RUNNING ORDER
The module, end to end
26 screens in the order a parent meets them, assembled from the four build files. This is the copy-edit surface: read it straight through and mark anything that sounds wrong out loud. Where a screen is written but not yet drawn, a dashed block names it rather than skipping it.
Editing here does not change the build files — this is assembled from them. Tell me what to change and I will make it in the source, or mark up this page and I will carry the edits back.
PART ONE
Learn
Four principles, read in order. Light ground throughout — this is teaching.
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SCR-101 · HOLD THAT THOUGHT
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There are no right answers yet
Keep that in mind
"I'd tell him we don't have time for this and put them on him myself. Then feel awful about it in the car."
Hold on to that. What follows is about why mornings like it happen, and what small shifts change the outcome. You'll see what you wrote again at the very end.
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SCR-102 · SECTION 1 OVERVIEW
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Learn
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rethinking difficult moments
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Four lenses, then you'll use them
Before trying a new approach in a hard moment, it helps to know what you're trying to do differently. There's nothing to memorise here — no technical terms you'll be tested on.
These four lenses are the ones your child's kindergarten teacher, Miss Rivera, is already using in her classroom. The phrases she says there turn up later in this module, so the language your child hears at school is the language you'll be practicing at home.
Discipline is teaching
Stopping a behavior and teaching a skill are two different jobs.
Look beneath the behavior
What you see is the signal, not the cause.
State comes before skill
An upset brain can't listen, and that includes yours.
Connection before correction
Empathy is what lets a limit actually land.
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SCR-103 · PRINCIPLE 1
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Discipline is teaching
When a child misbehaves it's natural to ask how to stop it right now. But stopping a behavior and teaching a child what to do instead are two different things. Focus only on ending the moment and you miss the chance to build something they can use next time.
The old frame
"How do I stop this behavior right now?"
Instead
"What skill is my child missing, and how do I teach it?"
Key concept
Behavior management stops discomfort in the moment. Teaching builds a skill for next time.
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SCR-104 · PRINCIPLE 2 · ICEBERG GRAPHIC
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Look beneath the behavior
When your child melts down, screams or refuses, the behavior is what you see — but it isn't the whole story. Instead of assuming they're choosing to be difficult, look underneath. What are they trying to tell you that they can't yet put into words?
The old frame
"She's choosing to be difficult and push my buttons."
Key concept
Behavior is the symptom on the surface. Missing skills and distress are the causes underneath.
ICEBERG
Behavior above the waterline, unmet need below. Interactive — tap a layer.
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SCR-105 · PRINCIPLE 3 · BRAIN-STATE TOGGLE
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State comes before skill
When a child is overwhelmed their brain switches to survival mode and logic is genuinely out of reach. Before you can teach anything or hold a limit, you both have to get back to calm.
The child's state
Your state
BRAIN STATE
Survival state, locked · Calm state, open to learning
Distress locks the thinking part of the brain. You can't teach a skill into an active storm — and if you're angry too, your state adds to theirs.
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SCR-106 · PRINCIPLE 4 · TWO-STEP FORMULA
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Connection before correction
Parents often worry that validating frustration means giving up control. It doesn't. Connection isn't permission — it's the bridge that lets your limit be heard. Acknowledge how they feel first and the boundary lands instead of bouncing.
The old frame
"If I validate her feelings, I'm giving in and letting her win."
TWO-STEP FORMULA
Acknowledge the feeling, then state the limit — with worked examples.
"You wanted to stay at the park. It's time to go home now." Understanding is not permission.
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SCR-107 · SECTION 1 CLOSE · NO BADGE
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End of section 1
Four lenses, in short
Discipline is teaching
Look for the missing skill
Look beneath
Behavior is a signal
State before skill
Regulate before reasoning
Connect, then correct
Validate, and hold the line
Next is Test Your Knowledge — four situations you think through in your own words. It takes about ten minutes.
Start Test Your Knowledge
Stop here for now
PART TWO
Test your knowledge
Four integrative items, each drawing on two or three criteria. One is built as a screen; the other three exist as scripts only.
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QZ-201 · QUESTION · FREE TEXT
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Test Your Knowledge
Question 1 of 4
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In your own words
Your five-year-old has been fine all afternoon. At the checkout he suddenly starts shouting that he wants a chocolate bar and won't stop when you say no. A woman behind you is watching. You find yourself about to say "we're leaving right now and you've lost screen time tonight."
What's probably going on for him, and what would you deal with first?
He's been holding it together all afternoon and he's run out. Honestly the thing I'd have to deal with first is me — I was about to say that because of the woman behind us
A sentence or two is plenty. Write it the way you'd explain it to a friend.
Check my answer
Skip this one
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QZ-201-R · RESULT · MODEL ANSWER COMPARISON
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Test Your Knowledge
Question 1 of 4
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You started with yourself
Nearly there
What you wrote
He's been holding it together all afternoon and he's run out. Honestly the thing I'd have to deal with first is me — I was about to say that because of the woman behind us.
✓
You read the outburst as running out of capacity, not as a choice
✓
You named your own state as the first thing to manage
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You didn't say that a consequence wouldn't land while he's shouting
One way to say it
The chocolate bar is the trigger, not the reason — he's run out of capacity, and a consequence won't land while he's shouting. The first thing to handle is my own state: I'm reacting to being watched, not to him.
Next question
I think my answer covered this
NOT YET DRAWN
QZ-202, QZ-203, QZ-204 and their result screens
Written in Section 2 Quiz Script. Item 3 is repair-focused, item 4 carries the school bridge. Not yet drawn.
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BAND · SECTION BOUNDARY · APPEARS AT ALL THREE
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End of section 2
That's the thinking part done
Next is Try It Out — three real moments where you write what you'd actually say. It takes about fifteen minutes, and it's the part worth doing when you're not rushing.
Start Try It Out
Stop here for now
Your place is saved on this device.
PART THREE
Try it out
Three scenarios, each typed. Working screens stay light; every summative screen is dark.
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SCR-100 · BASELINE · UNSCORED
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Before we start
One morning, before we begin
It's 7:40 in the morning and the bus comes in ten minutes. Your child is sitting in the hallway with one shoe on and the other kicked across the rug.
"I'm NOT wearing these stupid shoes! They feel weird and I HATE them!"
What would you say?
Type what you'd actually say…
Nothing here is scored and nobody else sees it. We'll come back to what you wrote at the end.
Continue
I'd rather start with the module
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SCN-301 · SCREEN TIME TRANSITION · TURN 2 OF MINIMUM 2
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Try It Out
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practicing in a real moment
Scenario 1 of 3
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5:30 PM, dinner is ready, and the timer you set five minutes ago has just gone off. Maya, 5, is on the couch with the tablet.
MAYA
Five more minutes. FIVE MORE MINUTES. I'm almost done!
YOU
I know it's really hard to stop in the middle of something good.
You named what she was feeling before you named the rule — that's connection before correction. She hasn't moved yet, though, and the limit still needs saying.
MAYA
So then I can finish it. You said it's hard, so let me finish it.
Type what you'd say next…
Say it
There's no single right answer. Say it the way you'd actually say it.
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SCN-301-R · RESULTS · BAND, NO PERCENTAGE
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Try It Out
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how that went
Scenario 1 of 3
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You stayed with her
Nearly there
You named her feeling before you named the rule, and you kept your own voice level when she dug in — that's the hard part and you did it. What she needed next was the limit said out loud, with a way to move.
✓
You kept your own composure
No threat, no raised voice, no bargaining away the limit.
✓
You connected before correcting
"I know it's really hard to stop in the middle of something good."
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The limit didn't get said
She heard that you understood, but not that the tablet was going off. Understanding without a limit reads to a five-year-old as a yes.
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No two choices offered
Two acceptable ways to comply give her something to decide, so stopping isn't a defeat.
Try this one again
Go on to the next scenario
Attempt 1 · your strongest attempt is the one that counts
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SCN-301-R · COMPOSURE FAILED · BAND REPLACES EVERYTHING
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Try It Out
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how that went
Scenario 1 of 3
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This one got away from you
Not yet
"No tablet for the rest of the week" is a consequence you invented while you were angry, and she heard the anger, not the limit. There was good work after it, but it landed on a child who had already stopped listening.
The old frame
She's testing me and I need to win this. — What's actually happening: she's five, she's absorbed in something, and her brain hasn't finished the part that makes stopping easy.
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Composure — start here next time
We'll look at the other three once this one holds. They only work from a calm voice.
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Connecting before correcting
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Saying the limit clearly
Try this one again
Go on to the next scenario
Attempt 2 · your strongest attempt is the one that counts
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SCN-302 · SIBLING TOY CONFLICT · TURN 2 OF MINIMUM 3
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Try It Out
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practicing in a real moment
Scenario 2 of 3
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You're making dinner when you hear crying from the playroom. Liam, 5, comes running in red-faced, pointing back at his three-year-old sister — who is on the rug with his monster truck.
LIAM
Maya TOOK my truck right out of my hands! Make her give it back to me RIGHT NOW!
YOU
That made you really mad — you were right in the middle of playing with it.
You met the feeling before the facts, and you didn't take a side. He's calmer — but he's still waiting for you to go and fix it.
LIAM
Can't you just go get it for me? She won't listen to me.
Type what you'd say next…
Say it
NOT YET DRAWN
SCN-302-R — sibling conflict feedback
Same shape as SCN-301-R. Not yet drawn.
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SCN-303 · SHOE CRISIS · CAPSTONE · WORDS TO TRY EXPANDED
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Try It Out
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practicing in a real moment
Scenario 3 of 3
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7:40 in the morning. The bus comes in ten minutes. You're reaching for your keys when you hear a thud in the hallway — your child on the floor, one shoe on and the other across the rug.
YOUR CHILD
I'm NOT wearing these stupid shoes! They feel weird and I HATE them!
Words to try
tap one to drop it in — then change it to sound like you
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"I can see those feel really uncomfortable right now."
"I'm going to take a breath."
"Left shoe first, or should I help with the heel?"
I can see those feel really uncomfortable right now.|
Say it
Nothing is sent until you press Say it.
NOT YET DRAWN
SCN-303-R — shoe crisis feedback, capstone
Carries the callback to the baseline. Not yet drawn.
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SCR-304 · BOOKEND REFLECTION · NO SCORE
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Try It Out
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the same morning, twice
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7:40 in the morning
Where you started, where you are
Before the module
"I'd probably tell him we don't have time for this and just put them on him myself. Then feel awful about it in the car."
Just now
"I can see those shoes feel wrong right now. I'm going to take a breath. Shoes keep your feet safe at school — do you want the left one first, or should I help with the heel?"
Looking at those two side by side — what changed in how you handled your own composure?
Whatever comes to mind…
Finish the module
This is yours to keep — it appears again on the next screen.
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CLOSE-1 · WHERE YOU STARTED, WHERE YOU ARE
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You're done
Where you started, where you are
What you wrote at the end
"I think I stopped trying to win. I still felt the same panic about the clock but I didn't put it on him."
The four things you practiced
Your own composure first
You can't calm a child from an upset place. Breathe before you speak.
Connect, then correct
Name what they're feeling before you name the rule.
Say the limit out loud
Kindly and plainly. Understanding without a limit sounds like yes.
Offer two ways to comply
Both acceptable to you. Choosing makes stopping survivable.
What to keep
Phrase cards, the glossary, and anywhere you'd like to go back to.
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CLOSE-2 · KEEP THESE
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Keep these
21 things to say instead
the phrase cards, one page
Print it and put it where the hard moments happen — the hallway, the kitchen, the bottom of the stairs.
Print the cards
Email them to me
Go back to anything
The four principles
Why the old frame doesn't work
Test your knowledge
Take it again any time
The three scenarios
Practice any of them again
What the words mean
Nine terms, plainly
Your place is saved on this device. Nothing you typed left it.
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PART FOUR
Reference
Not a step in the flow — reachable from any screen by ? or ⌘K, and never counted against the parent.
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SCR-400 · DRAWER OPEN OVER A SCENARIO · PHRASES TAB
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Try It Out
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practicing in a real moment
Scenario 2 · the shared seat
"She was in MY spot!"
Phrases
Glossary
School ↔ home
Search — try "hitting" or "won't listen"
SUGGESTED FOR THIS MOMENT
Name the feeling first
"You wanted that spot and she got there first. That felt unfair."
At school: "You're disappointed. You wanted to be first."
Two people, one problem
"You both want the same seat. What could work for both of you?"
Breathe together
"Hand on your belly. In through your nose with me."
Opening this never counts against you. Nothing you were typing is lost.
Browse all 21 cards
Print for the fridge
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SCR-401 · ALL PHRASE CARDS · FULL BROWSE
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Reference
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phrase cards
Print for the fridge
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FIVE MOVES
Calming first · 5
Naming the feeling · 4
Holding the limit · 5
Repair · 4
Noticing · 3
Grouped by what the move does, not by principle number — a parent mid-moment is looking for a job, not a chapter.
Calming first
Before anything else works — yours, then theirs.
Breathe together
"Hand on your belly. In through your nose with me."
At school: "S.T.A.R. — Smile, Take a deep breath, And Relax."
Say your own state out loud
Your line goes here.
At school: if the wording differs
Come sit with me a minute
Your line goes here.
Drop to their level
Your line goes here.
Fewer words, slower voice
Your line goes here.
Sixteen more cards across the other four groups, same shape.
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SCR-402 · GLOSSARY TAB · NINE WORDS, PLAIN ENGLISH FIRST
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Principle 2 · behavior is the tip
Phrases
Glossary
School ↔ home
When a child feels unsafe, the thinking part of the brain goes offline. They aren't choosing not to listen — they can't, yet. Nothing you teach in this state lands.
Put to work in: Breathe together · Fewer words, slower voice
Noticing · Safe place
scroll
Every term names the card that puts it to work, so no definition dead-ends. Audit item: verify nine is still the count against final copy.
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SCR-403 · SCHOOL ↔ HOME TAB
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Reference
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school ↔ home
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The same move, in two vocabularies
Your child hears one set of words at school and needs to recognize the same thing at home. You don't have to adopt the school's phrasing — you do have to know what it maps to.
WHAT THEY HEAR AT SCHOOL
WHAT IT IS AT HOME
"Let's S.T.A.R. together."
Breathing before talking. Your card: Breathe together.
"You're safe. Breathe with me."
Safety before instruction. Your card: Say your own state out loud.
"You wanted a turn."
Naming the want before the rule. Your card: Name the feeling first.
Two more rows from the school's own wording
Yours to fill — audit item: match every term to the school's actual phrasing, not the book's.
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SCR-404 · SEARCH · "HITTING" AND A MISS
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SAFETY FIRST
When someone could get hurt, the body comes before the words. Stop the hitting first, talk second — and that isn't a failure of the approach, it's the first step of it.
3 CARDS
Stop the body, then the words
Your line goes here.
Hands are for helping
Your line goes here.
Repair, not apology on demand
Your line goes here.
Five words route to a written safety response before any card: hitting, biting, running off, hurting themselves, throwing. Never generated.
NO CARD FOR THAT WORD
Nothing matches "bribing" — which may mean the module doesn't cover it, or may mean we called it something else.
Two things that often help anyway:
Browse all 21 cards by what they do
Nine words, in plain English
An empty state that offers two doors instead of an apology. It also never implies the parent asked a wrong question.
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SCR-405 · PRINT SHEET · ONE PAGE FOR THE FRIDGE
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Words to try
Twenty-one phrases, grouped by what they do. Conscious Discipline at Home.
CALMING FIRST
Breathe together
"Hand on your belly. In through your nose with me."
Four more
NAMING THE FEELING
Name the feeling first
"You wanted that spot and she got there first. That felt unfair."
Three more
HOLDING THE LIMIT
Five cards
REPAIR
Two people, one problem
"You both want the same seat. What could work for both of you?"
Three more
IF SOMEONE COULD GET HURT
Stop the body first, then the words.
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ONE OPEN DECISION
Audit item: print stylesheet or prepared PDF. Recommend the stylesheet — this is one page of text, a browser prints it cleanly, and it stays in sync with phrases.js forever. A PDF is a second copy of your content that will silently go stale the first time you reword a card.
Cost: about an hour of print CSS. Fits in the 8–9 Oct slot.
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SCR-406 · ABOUT & PRIVACY · MODULE CLOSE
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Conscious Discipline at Home
about this module
About
What this is, and what it isn't
An independent learning project, built to see whether a parent could practice these conversations rather than just read about them. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by Conscious Discipline or Loving Guidance. The approach is theirs; the interpretation, the wording and any mistakes are mine.
WHAT HAPPENS TO WHAT YOU TYPED
It stays on this device, in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, there is no account, and no one reads it — including me.
HOW THE FEEDBACK WORKS
Your answers are matched against written criteria — rules, on your own device. Not a person, not a judgment, and sometimes wrong about a good answer.
IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR CHILD
This module is not advice, assessment, or a substitute for a conversation with your child's teacher, doctor or a professional. If something feels more serious than a hard morning, it probably is — talk to someone.
Back to the module
Clear everything I've written
Marc LeMay · 2026
READING THIS FOR COPY
Three things worth watching for on a straight read, because they are the ones a flow view exposes and a single-screen view hides:
Repetition across screens. Each screen was written to stand alone, so reassurances about privacy, saving and not being graded may now land three times in a row.
Voice drift. Section 1 was written before Section 3. The later screens are warmer and shorter; the principle screens may read as the textbook by comparison.
Promises made early and kept late. SCR-101 sets an expectation about what the module will do; CLOSE-2 is where it either lands or doesn't.