S11 Episode 0: Big News! // Hillary Wilkinson, M ED

August 21, 2024

Hosted by Hillary Wilkinson

"This is the perfect time of year to set intention and create your plan for family fun this school year!"

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.


Resources

Healthy Screen Habits Teen and Tween Workbook

Click here to get your copy!

Common Sense Media's KOPSA Factsheet: pdf


No transcript available for this episode.



About the podcast host, Hillary Wilkinson


Hillary found the need to take a big look at technology when her children began asking for their own devices. Quickly overwhelmed, she found that the hard and fast rules in other areas of life became difficult to uphold in the digital world. As a teacher and a mom of 2 teens, Hillary believes the key to healthy screen habits lies in empowering our kids through education and awareness. 


Parenting is hard. Technology can make it tricky. Hillary uses this podcast to help bring these areas together to help all families create healthy screen habits.


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