Today's show will take us behind the curtain of the teen brain who is searching for a way to get around parental controls! 

You will learn that the idea of parental controls is a way to gain brand loyalty by the companies who want your kids glued to their devices. If you use parental controls then your child will be safe, right? Wrong. Because the job of every child is to discover work around every parental control out there! With the help of Doug Smith and Melanie, you will quickly see how many ways there are for a child to discover the thrill of hacking your parental controls.  

Remember, You don't have to be a tech expert you just have to be a smart ScreenStrong parent. As always we have your back and we will give you the strong truth and the bold solutions to winning the screen battle at home. 

Refrences & Links:

• TikTok’s Parental Control page is a perfect example of propaganda language
• [Un]Intentional: How Screens Secretly Shape Your Desires and How You Can Break Free by Doug Smith

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Production Team:

• Host: Melanie Hempe
• Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin