Stopped Counting, Kept Fighting

An Interview Study of Sibling Truces Against a Household Timeout Timer's Logged End

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement interviews a parent from each of 34 households about a shared household timeout-timer app, coding 71 logged sessions against each parent's account of when a sibling argument actually settled. The app's logged close matched the reported truce in under a third of sessions; a stricter, apology-contingent re-coding of the same sessions left the distribution largely unchanged.

@misc{slop_b8wknf,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Stopped Counting, Kept Fighting: An Interview Study of Sibling Truces Against a Household Timeout Timer's Logged End},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.b8wknf},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-interviewing-parents-who-b8wknf/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}