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The author of my favorite parenting book “Hunt, Gather, Parent” has a new book? And it’s about screen time and kids? YES, PLEASE!
The Anxious Generation alerted you to the danger of screens, however, it’s almost impossible to live modern lives without them.
“Dopamine Kids” is your handbook for solving that fundamental problem of our times—and teaching your kids to have a healthy relationship with technology and food.
As it turns out, nearly everything you’ve heard about dopamine is wrong. No, it’s not the molecule of happiness. And no, it doesn’t give us pleasure—it gives us motivation…
I created a fake Snapchat account under the name Tiffany, said I was 15, and made my avatar look like a cute teen girl.
I honestly expected that I was going to sit through an hour of mind-numbing tutorials about lip plumper and then BAM– a predator was going to strike-up a conversation with me in the chat.
Not so.
I was offered a completely different flavor of inappropriate that I was not prepared to see…
Would you let your teen get behind the wheel of a car without taking driver’s ed? No! Then why are you handing them the entire internet without sufficient training?
Pre-teen and teen tech classes are coming soon!
Tweens and teens will learn the tools to make smart, safe choices online.
Kids will learn how to avoid scams, sextortion, pornography, cyberbullying, and phishing. They will learn the pitfalls of social media and video games, smart phone etiquitte, and how to create healthy screen habits.
Students will be empowered with knowledge about AI, how to spot deepfakes, and how to avoid…
Think back to your favorite childhood memory of play.
Were you outside? Probably.
Riding your bike? Maybe.
Were a bunch of adults telling you what to do? Definitely not.
Deb Lawrence of The International Play Association USA tells us that the best thing you can do for your child’s development, self-esteem, coordination, social skills, resilience, and self-control is…
Why are kids choosing screens over playtime, friends, sports, and school? Why are boys wasting away in basements across the nation instead of thriving?
Psychologist Richard Freed reveals how Silicon Valley’s secret science of persuasive design is ruining a generation of children. He explains the equation used by the psychologists at Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others to keep us all hooked on screens for as long as possible.
It’s not your imagination. Social media and video games are engineered to be addictive! And it’s a secret sauce that Big Tech does not want us to know about! But the Screen Less Play More podcast tells us what we can do to keep our kids safe and how to untangle…
“In all my years of doing this since 2016, I have never worked with a single family that eliminated screens or significantly decreased screens and went on to regret it.”
“Every single one of them saw a brand new child who slept better, ate better, conversed better, socialized better, did better at school,” says Michael McLeod, executive function specialist at GrowNow ADHD.
“Somewhere along the way, kids’ sports stopped being for kids,” says author and guest of the Screen Less Play More Podcast, Linda Flanagan.
“Much of what we love about youth sports- and why we want our children to play- has been eroded.”
Linda answers our burning questions:
Is it important for kids to do sports?
At what age should a child choose a sport?
What percentage of kids get athletic scholarships?
Should I let my child quit a sport?
Is Snapchat safe for kids? What should I know about group texts? What’s so bad about Roblox?:
A lot. Like, A LOT.
Some are even calling Roblox a “pedophile hellscape.”
Yikes.
So what are parents to do? Sarah Gallagher Trombley has our answers.
Your son just attacked you like a rabid werewolf when you asked him to turn off “Minecraft.” Yup, I’ve been there. Here are the books that are ready to help.
These are the 6 best parenting books about screen time. (More to come as I make my way through a large stack!) Each book has a different take, but they all have great info and advice on how we all got here, and how to get back to a balanced life without screen addiction or tantrums.