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Commitment devices: keeping your promise to play

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Alexis Ralphs
Feb 24, 2025
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Commitment devices: keeping your promise to play

Imagine this: Your child walks past her tablet without a second glance, heading straight for her Play Kit instead. She's not doing this because you've asked her to - she's doing it because breaking her commitment to play would feel harder than following through.

This is the power of commitment devices - tools that help us stick to our intentions by makin…

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