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The 5 Core

Healthy Screen Habits

Feeling overwhelmed? Want to improve your relationships, protect your sleep, and keep your family safe from online dangers?


Here’s where to begin: The 5 Core Healthy Screen Habits.

We believe these essential practices will help combat some of the most problematic screen-use issues we see today. These 5 habits provide the biggest “bang for your buck” when it comes to parenting with technology.

INTRODUCING

Ask yourself 2 QUESTIONS, whenever you pick up your device:

  1. What's my purpose in using the device right now?
  2. How long will it take?

Ask: What's My Purpose?

Habit #1:

Habit #2:

The Grandma Rule

Remember the "Grandma Rule" when you're writing a DM (direct message), sending a picture, or posting anything online. If you wouldn't want Granny to see it, don't send it!

Put your phone away or set it to silent mode when you're working on important tasks or when you're with people. Stay connected to whoever you're with in person.

Phones Away or Silent

Habit #3:

Habit #4:

Decide on a time that you will turn your phone in for the night. Protect your sleep by charging your phone and other devices in the master bathroom instead of your bedroom.

Put Your Phone to Bed

Keep phones and other connected devices out of bedrooms and bathrooms. Tech stays in public spaces. Remember the 4 S's for safety!

Habit #5:

No Phones in Bedrooms

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Family Technology Plan

We know every family is different so we've created this template to help you in making choices for technology use specific to your family's needs.


Put them into practice today!


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Don't miss...

The Healthy Screen Habits Podcast with host Hillary Wilkinson.


Listen to weekly episodes that help families balance life with screens and media. Each episode on the Healthy Screen Habits podcast features insights, tips, and takeaways to help parents make informed decisions on how to live a healthy digital life.

Listen to the HSH Podcast here

Our 
Mission

The overuse of screens is decreasing mental, emotional, interpersonal, and physical well-being in people everywhere. We want to change these trends. 

 

Our mission is to empower families to create healthy habits for screen use, and to maintain technology as a tool– never as a replacement– for human connection.

 

Healthy Screen Habits is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We help families establish healthy screen habits by raising awareness, providing tools, and taking action.

 

We enable people to decide for themselves how they will use technology in their lives.

Create Healthy Screen Habits Here.

We share the latest research and resources to help families make informed decisions about screen time and to provide parents guidance as they navigate raising children in this digital age. Visit the Awareness, Tools, and Action pages below to begin creating healthy screen habits today.

Find out what the experts are saying about screen use.

Download useful resources for creating healthy screen habits. 
Get the Family Tech Plan!

See how you can make a difference in your self, your family, and in your community.

HSH PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

87.5% [of teens] self-reported a change in their tech usage.

Data collected from the Healthy Screen Habits teen workshop

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Start using tech on your terms. Find out how you can make changes in your family's screen habits today.

Download our FREE Healthy Screen Habits Tech Tips guide and find out how to create more balance in the way you and your family use technology. 

DID

YOU
KNOW?

Keeping screens out of a child's bedroom can help prevent serious problems.

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Remember the 4 S's: Sleep Disruption, Social Isolation, Salacious Content, Sexual Predators

The Cycle of Vulnerability

Human beings by nature try to move towards comfort. The trick is learning how to deal with the discomfort we experience throughout life in an emotionally healthy way. Unfortunately, the current tendencies towards dealing with "Big Feelings" by using screens to distract or numb are creating BIG problems. 


Kids and adults can find themselves locked in a cycle that is creating vulnerability rather than building strength, durability, and resilience.


Learn more about how we get stuck in the Cycle of Vulnerability and what we can do to break out.

The Cycle of Vulnerability
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See interviews in the media and hear how our experts discuss the benefits of using the Healthy Screen Habits Family Tech Plan.

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Many thanks to our generous donors who have contributed to Healthy Screen Habits, helping us move forward with our efforts to educate and empower families. We give special special thanks to:


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