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household-constitution

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Turn the household unwritten rules into a short charter everyone actually agreed to — screens, chores, money, guests, quiet — drafted together, with consequences decided in advance and an amendment process so it bends instead of breaking. Use when asked to make family rules that stick, a screen-time agreement, a flatmate agreement, or stop having the same argument about chores. Produces the negotiation session plan, the drafted constitution, the consequence menu agreed before anyone breaks anything, and the review procedure. Works for families and shared houses; slightly funny on purpose, binding on purpose too.

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# Household Constitution

Every household already has a constitution — unwritten, inconsistently enforced, and amended by whoever is loudest that evening. The arguments repeat because the rules were never actually agreed: they were announced (parents), assumed (flatmates), or inherited from a household that no longer exists. Writing them down together changes the physics. A teenager who negotiated the screen rule follows a different rule than one who received it; a flatmate who proposed the guest policy cannot be shocked by it. This skill runs the drafting: everyone proposes, everything gets argued once *properly* instead of weekly forever, consequences are chosen while everyone is calm, and an amendment clause makes the document alive — because a constitution that cannot change just becomes the new thing to ignore.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The negotiation session plan** — who proposes what, in what order, and the rules of the drafting meeting itself (everyone writes before anyone speaks)
- **The constitution** — 8–15 plain-language articles across the real domains: screens, chores, money, guests, noise/quiet, shared spaces, food, privacy
- **The consequence menu** — agreed in advance, proportionate, and applying to *everyone* the article covers, adults included
- **The amendment and review procedure** — how a rule gets changed instead of broken, and the scheduled review that keeps it honest
- **The signing ritual** — slightly ceremonial on purpose, because the ceremony is what children and flatmates alike remember agreeing at

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