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Guest and cybersecurity expert Jessie Liew shares how she became passionate about helping parents empower their children to overcome screen addiction by finding herself first utilizing more of her knowledge and resourcefulness to prevent screen addiction for her children: “I didn’t aspire to be a parenting coach. So how it actually got started is because of my background. I graduated in computer science, and my husband is also in Tai Chi. So, two of us, we know that the Internet is very dangerous. All these platform devices are very addictive. Part of the side, we also study how to get users to love to use your apps. We know it’s very addictive, especially not super for children. So, I think for my first one, she didn’t get to use the iPad, the smart phone, headsets in the very early age. She’s seven, eight years old, she was always complaining: “Augh, my friend got it. I haven’t got it. So, she’s kind of like kind of jealous. In year 2020, when pandemic came, covid came, my country announced a lockdown. I realized one thing. My children have to be with the screen all the time.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Jessie Liew talks about learning in school how to how to utilize the Internet and social media in marketing to make an app addictive. She shares that her background in computer science and cybersecurity helped her safely protect her children from screen addiction by being aware and proactive. She shares tips for parents to prevent their children from screen addiction and to help parents empower their child to overcome scrren addiction. Then, with her friends’ children. In explaining why screen addiction has become such a pervasive problem, she notes that apps aren’t really free because companies sell your data to other companies who pay them to advertise on your profile in a social media platform to purchase their company's product or service. She shares a compelling story about a friend whose teenage son suffered from screen addiction and about her shock in learning that their fights had become physical. She notes helping her friends empower their children to overcome screen addiction inspired her to become a digital parenting coach..She stresses Internet marketing professionals know how to make their app addictive. Jessie asserts that there is a correlation between the obesity problem and the effectiveness in marketing of companies in the food industry. Jessie closes the episode with a benevolent call to action to prevent your child from having a screen addiction.

To stay connected with Jessie, her Facebook profile can be found at this website address: https://www.facebook.com/jessieliewsp. Her LinkedIn profile can be found at this one: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessieliewsp/. Her free Facebook group is the website listed for this episode to help you reduce screentime for your child and increase family connection. Jessie wants you to know she shares tips to prevent screen addiction and access to free training in this Facebook group.

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