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Phone-Free Schools Are Half the Solution

Apr 30, 2024

How an Idaho School District Adopted a Phone-Free Policy

Apr 23, 2024

How I Became The Screentime Consultant

Apr 17, 2024

My Testimony to the Vermont House in Support of S.289

Apr 10, 2024

Birds, Bees & Phones

Apr 3, 2024

“Child-Friendly” Devices Aren’t Better Than Smartphones

Mar 26, 2024

Cultivating Resilience

Mar 12, 2024

The Problem With AI in Education Isn’t What You Think

Mar 4, 2024

The Impacts of Screen-Based Technology

Feb 28, 2024

4 Ways Tech-Based Play Is Different From Traditional Play

Feb 20, 2024

How Family Values Relate to Screentime

Feb 14, 2024

Scary Versus Dangerous: Worry About the Right Stuff

Feb 6, 2024

The Money is Just Too Good. Even When Kids are Dying.

Jan 31, 2024

Which Skills Should We Emphasize for Healthy Development?

Jan 31, 2024

The Evolution of Persuasive Design

Jan 23, 2024

Proven Strategies for Navigating Post-Screen Meltdowns

Jan 16, 2024

3 More Habits of the Tech-Intentional™ Family

Jan 1, 2024

3 Habits of the Tech-Intentional™ Family

Dec 25, 2023

Living Our Lives Out Loud

Dec 18, 2023

When “I’m Bored” Means “I Want Screentime”

Dec 11, 2023

When Fighting Over Foursquare Isn’t a Bad Thing

Dec 5, 2023

We’ve Got It Backwards. Skills Matter.

Nov 27, 2023

The Parenting Quadrant

Nov 21, 2023

5 Reasons Parental Controls Will Fail You

Nov 14, 2023

Tech’s Secret Weapon: Persuasive Design

Nov 7, 2023

A Child Who Thinks They Can’t Is Eventually Right

Oct 24, 2023

When The News is Scary and the Images Graphic

Oct 10, 2023

Safe? Or Surveilled? Striking the Right Balance as Parents in the Digital Age

Oct 5, 2023

Middle Schoolers Don’t Need Smartphones. They Need a Childhood.

Sep 29, 2023

Kids are using A LOT of tech at school. Here’s what you need to know…

Sep 23, 2023

Guest Newsletter with Gillian Jarvis, Pediatric OT

Sep 15, 2023

An Open Letter to Parents About Parental Controls

Sep 8, 2023

Social media and me. (If it's hard for us, it's worse for kids)

Sep 1, 2023

“Social Media is Bad for Kids,” According to a Kid

Aug 25, 2023

Save a Tween, Share a Phone

Aug 18, 2023

Holding Tight and Letting Go: Parenting a Teen

Aug 3, 2023

The Number One Question I Get Asked and How I Respond

Jul 26, 2023

My Teen Is In Europe and All I Get are One-Word Texts. Here's Why That's Ok.

Jun 23, 2023

3 Questions to Consider About When to Give Your Kid a Phone (Or For Whom the Phone Pulls)

Jun 19, 2023

Why I Give My Tween Permission to Be Mad at Me

Jun 9, 2023

“My Kid Doesn’t Use Social Media.” Yes, they do. If your kid uses YouTube or Roblox, they’re using social media.

Jun 5, 2023

On the Minds of Middle Schoolers

May 19, 2023

What Parents Need to Know About Screen Use in Schools

Feb 23, 2023

ChatGPT: What's Scary vs Dangerous

Jan 26, 2023

Which Parental Controls Do I Recommend? None.

Nov 2, 2022

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