Isn’t it Lovely? Season 8 kicks off with Tracy and Rachel welcoming longtime dream guest and founder of Better Screen Time Andrea Davis to the show! Leaving guilt, shame, and fear at the door, Andrea instead educates and empowers listeners with countless tools, resources, and strategies to create technology habits that optimize enjoyment of screens in healthy ways. Andrea encourages families to establish routines and expectations for technology by creating a family tech plan, understanding the motivation of the three Cs (creating, connecting, and consuming), and having candid conversations about the responsibilities and personal accountability that precede a child having a phone. Andrea celebrates children being smart, curious, and human, recognizing the limitations of a one size fits all mentality and respectfully inviting kids into the reasoning and conversations behind decisions. Andrea and Rachel discuss a reconsideration of using screen time as part of a reward cycle; Tracy and Andrea explore the importance of identity and knowing oneself well enough to counteract social media messaging. Tracy and Rachel swoon over Andrea’s multiple book recommendations and mic drop moments, all while attempting to master the art of the mute button.

Episode Mentions:

Andrea Davis’s Website: https://www.betterscreentime.com/

Andrea Davis’s Instagram: @betterscreentime

Andrea Davis’s Facebook: Better Screen Time

Atomic Habits by James Clear

https://amzn.to/3JdSLkY

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood - and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge

https://amzn.to/3ZJGiuQ

TED Talk by Psychologist Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_alter_why_our_screens_make_us_less_happy?language=en

The Social Dilemma Documentary

https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras

https://amzn.to/3ZG7Rox

Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time by Victoria L. Dunckley

https://amzn.to/3KUJn73

What Are You Loving:

Andrea: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer

https://amzn.to/3ZpDBhZ

Rachel: Play-Doh

https://amzn.to/3KZCSjq

Tracy: Artistry Dance

https://www.artistrydancestudio.com/

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