Healthy Screen Habits Podcast

As always, the Healthy Screen Habits Podcast crew is going on a holiday hiatus as we walk our talk and spend time with our own families during these very fun festive days. Thank you so much for spending time with us and learning more Healthy Screen Habits together. The Podcast will be back and exploring more in 2025! Listen to this to hear all about tech free gifts and why perfection is completely overrated. ;)

Featured in Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2023. The Bark phone continues to expand and deliver upon the reliability and safety needs for kids as they explore their online life. On this episode, listen to Bark's Chief Parenting Officer, Titania Jordan,  to learn more about the Bark phone, the Bark for Schools app, and so much more.

Tweens and teens are flooding beauty counters after watching skinfluencer skin care regimens and make up tutorials. With over 15 years in the natural product and nutrition industries, Kimberly Grustas has an advanced knowledge of the dangers of even trace levels of estrogenic chemicals during the delicate transformation from girlhood to adult, AKA: puberty.  On this episode, we talk about skinfluencers, young girls and best skincare practices.

As parents play key roles during childhood and adolescence, child-parent relationships, parenting styles and home environments have been identified as factors that may contribute to children's screen use patterns. Listen as the lead author/researcher, Dr. Jason Nagata, of an article titled, Associations Between Media Parenting Practices and Early Adolescent Screen Use published in a recent article in the Journal of  Pediatric Research, explains how parents' tech use can affect their kids' use of tech.

It’s very interesting and incredibly important. Listen today!

With a mission to create a safer internet for everyone and huge celebrity endorsements in Hollywood, Aura has taken the digital safety sphere by storm.  Dr. Scott Kollins joined Aura @aura_protects as its Chief Medical Officer. Wielding a robust background in clinical psychology and digital health, his career includes significant contributions to the development of digital therapeutics and mental health solutions.  Kollins role at Aura is critical in shaping the company's approach and parent understanding of youth safety and mental wellness in the digital era.

Listen today to see what you think - will you be interested in trying out Aura?  

The UnPlugged Hours is the story of one woman’s journey to creativity, self, and family.  After recognizing how much tech was affecting her creative process and stripping her imagination, Hannah Brencher committed to intentionally taking a 1,000 hour break from technology.  She did not intend to write this book - her process started as a commitment to self-improvement and became so much more.  Hannah is a writer, TED speaker, and entrepreneur. Named as one of the White House’s “Women Working to Do Good,”  she works to encourage tech-less connection and creativity.  Listen now!

Todd and Mia Minor are parents who have become a powerful force in awareness building and education of online challenges. The Minor's lives changed forever when Matthew, their 12-year-old son, died accidentally through participation in a social media challenge known as the Choking Challenge.

In this episode, learn about online challenges and how kids are perceiving them. Listen now!

Pam Tudin is very familiar with the struggles and triumphs of the human condition as a clinical and forensic psychologist. She's an international speaker on all matters teen and tween and the co-founder of KLIKD, an organization committed to providing, can-do solutions for families to use social media happily, safely, and responsibly. In this episode we talk about the importance of being the soft place for your child to land when they make an online mistake and so much more. Listen today!

Just as you wouldn't let a new driver take the wheel of a car without proper training, using smartphones requires instruction. Healthy Screen Habits now has a workbook designed for tweens and teens to help them navigate the rules of the road for smartphone use. 

Healthy Screen Habits Workbook for Tweens and Teens is what we, the founding members of Healthy Screen Habits, wish we had when our oldest kids were getting their first devices. Learn all about it when you listen to this week’s podcast with the authors: Amy Adams and Jeannie Ondelacy Sprague. 

Wendy Waddel is the program manager of Safety Net Smart Cyber Choices,  a collaborative program of the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the San Diego Police Foundation. @sandiegopolicefoundation  She has all the details about laws and legal ramifications surrounding online predators, nude selfies, and more.  I learned so much about what to do about online scams & hacks and a great tip to employ when telling your kids you legally need to check their phone! This episode is a must listen!