Length: 40:20

Dr. Laura Markham is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings. She is the founding editor of AhaParenting which reaches over 140,000 parents per week. Dr. Laura’s aspiration is to change the world, one child at a time, by supporting parents.

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Dr. Laura Markham talks about how when kids are emotionally healthy, they aren’t as vulnerable to tech addiction. She shares developmentally appropriate recommendations for screen time at various ages and stages, and suggestions for building resilience. Dr. Laura talks about the value of your relationship with your children, communicating with them, and helping them develop self regulation.

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Free Parenting Tools

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This reassuring conversation with Dr. Devorah Heitner will hear what kids are doing (and not doing) on their phones and on screens. Devorah talks about what to do to supervise kids, at various stages, so that the content they see is appropriate. You will hear helpful guidance about what conversations to have with kids about what they’ve seen on screens, you’ll hear essential topics to cover before getting a phone, how to help kids balance their technology use with other things in their life, and how kids can use social media or gaming as a bridge to developing social skills.

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FREE 7 day Tech Reset email course

Phonewise Boot Camp for Parents – DISCOUNT

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Janell Burley Hofmann talks about how we communicate to young children to protect them from what they might find online, and how we could talk to them afterward if we discover that they have been exposed to inappropriate content. Janell shares what kids need to know at each developmental level and also about the importance of a Tech Curfew.

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Dr. Shanker is the Founder and Science Director of the Self-Regulation Institute and the CEO of The MEHRIT Centre. He has authored several books including “Calm, Alert and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation”, and most recently “Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage With Life”. Dr. Shanker has served as an advisor on early child development to government organizations across Canada, the United States, and other countries.

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Dr. Stuart Shanker says that self regulation is how kids (and adults) deal with stress. Self regulation skills are essential because there are healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with stress. When kids use technology–like social media, watching a video, or playing a game–to deal with stress they actually feel worse afterward, and the stress is still there. While kids who use exercise, art, or time with others, feel better afterward.

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Thayer Matrix

Max Stossel

The Real Cost of Social Media: Protecting Your Teen’s Mental Health in a Digital World

Length: 38:44

Max Stossel is an award-winning artist, and the founder of Social Awakening: an organization dedicated to helping young people survive and thrive in the modern world.
Before working in this field, Max was a media strategist with an extensive background in social media. He ran social media for big brands, and later worked for a social media company where he designed some notifications to distract people.
He has spent the past eight years speaking with 100,000+ students, parents, and educators around the world about social media's impact on our lives, and creating resources to help manage that impact.

Summary:
Social media isn’t just a distraction—it’s designed for addiction. Max Stossel shares the hidden mechanics behind endless scrolling, comparison culture, and the mental health crisis affecting today’s teens. Drawing on his years of speaking with students and parents worldwide, Max helps families understand how algorithms shape what teens see, how this impacts confidence and connection, and what parents can do to help kids find real-life fulfillment beyond the screen.

Ross is the originator of the innovative, empirically-supported approach now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books The Explosive Child and Lost at School. Dr. Greene served on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is currently adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He is also the Founding Director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance, which provides free, web-based resources on the CPS model; support and advocacy for behaviorally challenging kids and their caregivers; takes a strong stand against the use of corporal punishment at home and school, the use of restraint and seclusion in schools and restrictive therapeutic facilities, and the use of detention, suspension, and expulsion in schools, preschools, and daycare settings; and advocates for interventions that are non-punitive and non-adversarial. Dr. Greene lectures and provides consultation to families, schools, and restrictive therapeutic facilities throughout the world and lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife and two kids.

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Dr. Ross Greene says that kids do well when they can… when they can’t, it’s because of unsolved problems and lagging skills. Ross talks about why adult imposed consequences (time out, detention, spanking, etc) don’t work, and he demonstrates what parents can do instead. We asked Ross how he would work with a young teen who is having difficulty getting off a video game. You won’t want to miss his response!

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