Screen Time Stories: Parenting Techniques for Raising Tech Natives

Our guest today, Jenifer Joy Madden  of Durable Human, joined us last season to give a broad overview of babies and screentime. On this episode, she shares her thoughts on a new study just published in JAMA Medicine.

 

The study looks at developmental delays in infants and toddlers in relation to how much time they spend with screens. We examine two subgroups, moms with postpartum depression and those who are socioeconomically imp...

Kim Hopkins, the Director of Outreach at Lives in the Balance, shares the formula behind the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model and the reason she started (and continued) using it in multiple residential facilities over a decade ago. 

 

CPS is the evidence-based, trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming model of care that helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems that are causing concerning behaviors in kids ...

Jose Santana spent eight months making a concerted effort to quit video gaming. and almost a year later, says he'll never play a video game again. 

 

In this week's episode, 16-year-old Jose joins Julie to share his personal experiences growing up in this digital world, and expresses his love/hate relationship with modern technology and social platforms.

 

Kids and teens are especially encouraged to listen to Jose's story to hear a...

Julie is joined by Jenifer Joy Madden, a digital wellness expert, health journalist, digital media educator, community advocate, and parent, to talk about how screens during the first three years of a child's life can impact their future. 

 

Jenifer founded the Durable Human in 2009 as a platform to inspire adults and children to cherish, strengthen, and protect their unique human assets, capabilities, and perspectives in a complex...

In this episode, Julie asks Catherine Knibbs, a Child Trauma Psychotherapist, how the Attachment Theory influences kids and their interaction with technology.

 

Cath is a Clinical Doctoral Researcher, Consultant, Public Speaker, Author, Child Trauma Psychotherapist and member of the VUWG. She writes about and works with cybertrauma, which is any trauma that occurs through an internet ready device.

 

Watch Cath's TedX Doncaster Talk...

Today, with Dr. Bradley Zicherman of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, we’re going to go over the impact that screens have on our kids’ mental health, and the rise of suicides in youth.

 

The goal is to bring awareness to a subject that’s hard to talk about and to help spot patterns in our own kids.

 

In 2020, the CDC named suicide as the second leading cause of death in 15- to 19-year-olds. A 2018 study on teenagers found links...

Today we're chatting with Sarah McDugal of Wilderness to WILD, getting advice on how to talk to our kids about body safety—online and in real life.   Sarah is a mama, and also an author, coach, and survivor. As a neurodivergent woman on the autism spectrum, and a survivor of domestic violence and child sexual assault, her hyper focus is developing evidence-based, gospel-aligned resources for women after abuse.   

"Trauma Mama" Mo...

How many of our teens are actually watching porn? Well, that’s tough to estimate since we’re relying on self-reporting.  

 

A longitudinal study published in 2022 found that 63 to 68 percent of teens have watched porn in their lifetime, and 23 to 42 percent have watched in the last year. 

 

And the main source is smartphones, with that initial foray being unexpected about half the time.

 

To help us understand this topic better, we...

Today we’re starting a two part series on pornography, breaking it into two parts so that we can focus on younger kids and the introductory phase today. We’ll gear next week’s episode toward older kids. 

 

To help us get a better understanding of this, we're talking to Kristen Jenson. Kristen A. Jenson is the founder of Defend Young Minds (formerly Protect Young Minds®) and #1 best-selling author of the Good Pictures Bad Pictures s...

Today we’re talking about the pinnacle of innovation, creativity, and wealth. Well, at least in our kids’ eyes. We’re talking about iPhones.  Why? Because our kids ask for them by name, and we could very easily dust off an old model as a hand-me-down.

 

But what challenges will we face if we go this route? Well, for starters, the workarounds and loopholes are endless. Here are just a few: 

• After ki...

It's common to hear about gambling addictions taking hold of great people. Why? What makes you and I any different? And how different is that favorite app compared to a casino? 

 

Dr. Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation, provides us with insight on the chemical that makes us want more, more, more. This episode explains the science in real-world examples while giving tips to help us and our kids deal with the dopamine challenges ...

Author and public speaker Simone Heng gives research-based advice on navigating connections. Simone, who works with organizations like Lucasfilm, Adobe, Google, and The United Nations, personally discovered the beauty of authenticity before sharing her findings with others.

 

In this episode, we discover how to identify authentic connections, and the specific ways in how technology can support and damage our search for deeper conne...