Does your child completely loose their %$# when something even mildly scary comes on the screen? Me too. So it is a real gamble when we turn on the tv, and even more terrifying to spend a fortune on an unknown movie in the theater.

We are here to help!

Here’s our list of favorite films for sensitive kiddos.

I know I always say screen less… But research indicates that there is a big difference in our brains between time watching a movie, versus scrolling a quick-form video platform like TikTok or Instagram.

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We are counting down our top six episodes of the Screen Less Play More podcast!

Screen Less Play More is the go-to parenting podcast for families who want to raise confident, curious, healthy kids in a digital world. If you’re worried about technology, cell phones, screen time battles, video games, social media pressure, or how tech impacts your child’s mental health, behavior, and attention, you’re in the right place.

Each episode features experts who help parents create healthy tech habits, set realistic phone boundaries, and build a calmer home with fewer screens and more connection. We also dive deep into the power of play—free play, risky play, outdoor play, imaginative play, and reading—to help kids develop resilience, creativity, and independence.

Whether you’re raising toddlers, kids, tweens, or teens, this podcast gives you practical tools, research-backed strategies, and hope for raising children who thrive both online and offline.

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I know that you want to make it a magical and memorable Christmas or Hanukkah. But please, do yourself and your child a favor: do not buy them a smartphone as a gift. (And please tell Santa to hold off as well.)

Reasons include: increased suicide risk, exposure to pornography, decreased attention, health problems, and more!

Tune in each day from now until Christmas for 50 reasons to delay buying your child a phone.

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It’s not like your 12-year old boy wakes up one day and decides to be a woman hater.

It often starts with memes. Kids trade texts with thinly veiled misogyny, homophobia, and racism and pass it off as humor.

Then they start watching “self help” videos on Youtube about getting fit, earning money, and attracting women.

That’s when it starts to turn dark…

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While reading “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” it’s easy to infer that Roald Dahl was disgusted by the way children were changing from the new technology of his time.

I can relate.

If Roald Dahl, (and Willy Wonka) are disgusted by the new breed of television-obsessed brats, (in 1964) then what would they like children to do instead of TV?

Well, I believe is best said in the words of Dahl’s most memorable creations, the Oompa-Loompas…

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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…

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Is Snapchat safe for kids?, is Snapchat safe, online safety, internet safety, parental controls

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…

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