Posts tagged screentime
Parents are Screen Obsessed Too! 4 Steps to Help Parents Become Better Role Models for Their Kids

Your child may not have a smartphone yet, but you can bet that once they do they’ll be using your example as their baseline for how and when to use it. So how can we as parents make sure that we are modeling the behavior that we’d like to see in our kids? Here are 4 simple steps to take today.

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Managing Summer Screen Time - An Action Plan!

If you are a parent who will have your kids at home for extended periods of time this summer you are likely stressed out about how to manage screen use during these long summer days. But, with a little bit of forethought and planning you can come up with a summertime screen time solution that keeps kids from overloading on what I call “junk food screen time” and doesn’t force you to become your child’s personal camp counselor!

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Round Up: List of Daily Goals to Keep the Offline/Online Balance For Kids at Home

For many parents the goal of reducing screen time during this Pandemic feels impossible to attain. If that feels like your situation then I’d recommend shifting your perspective. Instead of worrying about how much time your child is spending in front of a device, focus on making sure that all their physical, mental and spiritual needs are being met on a daily basis. Here is a list of daily goals for you to pull from or create your own!

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A Parent’s Summer Screen Time RX - the How, Where & When Method

Summer means more freedom, less school work and more fun. But I certainly don’t want to throw all the family rules out the window and during the school year our screen time limit keeps things running pretty smoothly. So how do I maintain our family rules and values around device use while still allowing them a summertime “win?”

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