Sarah Siegand is a parent educator, tech consultant, and mom of 2 teenage boys. She and her husband Jesse founded Parents Who Fight in 2015. With this season’s focus being placed on Social Media, she is the perfect person to ask ALL the questions about what type of boundaries we need to put in place for healthy habits with social media. 

Sarah Siegand is a parent educator, tech consultant, and mom of 2 teenage boys. She and her husband Jesse founded Parents Who Fight in 2015. With this season’s focus being placed on Social Media, she is the perfect person to ask ALL the questions about what type of boundaries we need to put in place for healthy habits with social media. 

Charlotte Markey Phd is uniquely qualified to talk about the effects social media is having upon our youth's developing self image.   Actively doing research, examining eating behaviors and body image for 25 years, she has applied this knowledge to newer issues cropping up surrounding social media and self image.  In this episode we explore all of these things and talk about how our own kids have been affected by tech.

Joann Bogard is a parent who did everything right and her son still died participating in a dangerous social media challenge.  The “Choking Challenge” is an ongoing killer and Big Tech is failing to put up guardrails.  In this episode learn about 15 year old Mason Bogard, his life, and how we can support legislation that will provide youth protection from being exposed to dangerous online challenges.

Richard Culatta is the CEO of ISTE (International Society for Technology and Education) and author of the book Digital For Good - Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World.  In this episode we discuss how the digital citizenship curriculum needs to be updated and how to become an upstander when seeing cyberharm occur.

This Trailer for Season 5 of the HSH Podcast teases a a few of the upcoming episodes.  I also talk about the focus of this season : Social Media.

Is sound editing to podcasts as filters are to photos? Decide for yourself while hearing bloopers and outakes of the Healthy Screen Habits Podcast!  Also gain insight into Gen Z perspective with a conversation with our sound editor.

Summer is barreling down on us and while some are ready for the  lazy mornings and unscheduled days, others are already starting to agitate over how to navigate these coming weeks without succumbing to the allure and ease of too much screen time.  This week we get the full collective knowledge of the moms of Healthy Screen Habits to share their tips, tricks and hacks on how to have a balanced summer with tech.

Summer is coming! How do we teach kids to self-regulate around time spent video-gaming?  Tracy Foster from the organization START teaches all about their tool called the “video game decision tree”.  In this episode we talk about the founding philosophy and components of START as well as go over this invaluable tool to help parents maintain summer sanity!

Jesse Hildebrand is the VP of Education at Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants, an organization committed to bringing exploration, travel, and adventure into your home and classroom!  With live opportunities to talk to astronauts, Arctic explorers, and more, Jesse is at the forefront of bridging offline experiences and online learning and it’s all FREE! Listen and learn more!