Habits & Lifestyle
Your guide to cultivating a balanced digital life. We dive into the routines and habits that help individuals and families maintain control over technology use. Each episode offers actionable strategies to integrate screen time mindfully, making space for healthier, more fulfilling daily routines that prioritize well-being.
Healthy Screen Habits had an amazing summer filled with family adventures, shared memories and - most exciting of all - the publication of our first workbook! Healthy Screen Habits for Tweens and Teens - A training workbook to help you use your phone wisely is now available. Whether your child is new to owning a phone or even if they've had one for a while, chances are they're still figuring out the DOs and DON’Ts of using a smartphone wisely. This workbook is here to help you and your child navigate life in the digital world! We’ve put together all the information, tips, hacks, and rules to ensure that their phone is a useful tool that THEY CONTROL, not the other way around.
Summer is barreling down on us and while some are ready for the lazy mornings and unscheduled days, others are already starting to agitate over how to navigate these coming weeks without succumbing to the allure and ease of too much screen time. This week we get the full collective knowledge of the moms of Healthy Screen Habits– Amy Adams, Jeannie Ondelacy Sprague, Julianna Lorenzen, and me, Hillary Wilkinson– to share our tips, tricks and hacks on how to have a balanced summer with tech.
Summer is coming and how do we teach kids to self-regulate around time spent video-gaming? Tracy Foster from the organization START teaches all about their tool called the “video game decision tree”. In this episode we talk about the founding philosophy and components of START as well as go over this invaluable tool to help parents maintain summer sanity!
Teens are under assault with a constant barrage of digital media, notifications, and social stress. Help your kids learn how to tame their tech and slay their digital dragons by implementing 3 R’s introduced by Dr. Alex J Packer in today’s episode.
As the founder of Smart Digital Kids, Dr. Beverly Pell is committed to empowering parents and educators to raise kids who use tech in smart ways, intentionally, responsibly, and creatively. She also wants to teach how to use tech to promote purpose and wellbeing. In this episode, we talk about her method in which we all learn how to TAME our tech and increase our connection as a team.
Dr. Nina Shapiro has been taking care of children for nearly 25 years. One of the things she has learned along the way is: The more you empower kids with knowledge surrounding their own health, the better they apply healthy habits! In this episode, we tackle the ever present question, “Why Can’t I Have More Screen Time?”
Julianna Lorenzen is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Healthy Screen Habits and a whole lot of fun! In this episode, learn about the most popular tool accessed at our website, The Family Tech Plan, and unlock your family’s potential in the New Year.
Chris McKenna is the founder and CEO of Protect Young Eyes, an organization committed to helping families, schools and churches create safer digital spaces. He employs a 4 layer method to controlling digital access and encourages all families to have multiple conversations surrounding pornography and internet overuse.
In this episode, Chris discusses the benefits of becoming your child’s digital coach and chooses his favorite candy.
