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Reducing screen time doesn’t have to be a battle. It can be an opportunity to reconnect as a family.
By reflecting on how much time we spend on screens and prioritizing real-world interactions, we set the stage for healthier, happier lives for our children. Whether it’s through implementing…
How can a hashtag be dangerous?
By putting a hashtag on your child’s photo, it makes it potentially accessible to a pedophile with one simple click.
Pedophiles and predators need not spend hours searching for scantily-clad children, when they can click #nakedbabies, #toddlerbikinis, or #bathtimefun for thousands of photos.
You may have created a unique hashtag for your specific child, but beware that if someone takes a liking to your kid…
In her practice, therapist Tessa Stuckey started recognizing a trend about 6 years ago.
“Kids would come to me with typical life stressors, mom got mad at them, they didn’t empty their dishwasher, or they made a C on a chemistry exam. Typical life stressors. But their go-to answer was always a dark, dark thought, whether that be self-harm or suicidal thinking.”
Tessa started investigating and found that “every single one of them had issues that were rooted back to an overuse of unhealthy screens or social media.”
Screen Less Play More podcast Episode 4 is available now!
Tech and relationship expert Ty Tashiro talks about online dating, awkwardness, digital parenting, and what we can do to find true love in this tech age!
Ty is the author of “Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome,” and “The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Search for True Love.”
His interview on the podcast helps us understand why we are awkward, how technology is helping and hurting that, and how to be less awkward! He helps us improve our friendships, and learn how we can use psychology to hack the online dating app system!
Kat Zilka was a high school teacher who realized that her students were in a real mental health crisis. She asked her students to write an essay about their relationship to their phones, and was shocked to read their confessions. “Honestly, if you were to read the essays and insert another substance, like alcohol or drugs into, in place of the phone or in place of social media, it would have been addicts crying for help.” She tells us all about it in Episode 1.
Episode two is a fantastic conversation with Erin Loechner, author of “The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can’t.” Erin teaches us how to be more engaging than the algorithm! She has tons of great ideas on how to use the tricks of big tech in a low-tech way to bring your family some fun, connection, and meaning.
Episode 3 helps us answer the question “What’s the best way for students to prep for the SAT?”
This episode should not be missed if you have a child in middle school or high school. Charlotte Winters has been an SAT tutor for 15 years, and teaches us that SAT prep isn’t as difficult or complicated as we think it is. Our talk explores the differences between the SAT and ACT, the significance of the PSAT, and how parents can…
Jonathan Haidt’s excellent book “The Anxious Generation” argues that the play-based childhood of our youth has been replaced with the phone-based childhood of now, and it’s not good. No bueno. Negatory, good buddy.
But there’s hope!
Haidt puts forth 4 things we can all do to get our children back (and get them some bonna fide childhoods instead of the hot garbage they’re living on TicTok.)
No smartphones before high school.
No social media before 16.
Phone-free schools.
Far more unsupervised play and childhood independence…
Has the iPad become your babysitter? Do you want to reduce screen time but the idea of completely screen free kids terrifies you? Consider the following:
Your young daughter has been watching her iPad for way longer than you intended, which has devolved into trolling the dark web, and now you’re trying to get her to turn it off before bedtime.
It’s getting ugly.
Like, “sweating off your glitter mascara while barfing in a hot porta-potty at Coachella” ugly.
