Scrolling 2 Death

In this conversation, I interview author, mom and entrepreneur Jenna Lee Dillon to discuss children's screen time; the benefits, the dangers and the importance of a proactive approach to screens.

Jenna Lee authored an incredible book called Look Up! A Wild & Screen Freed Roadmap to Enjoying Travel with Kids. This book dives into Jenna Lee's experiences and lessons embarking on 65 flights at 51 roadtrips with her daughter, all screen free!

So much to learn in this super relatable conversation between two moms who are trying to give our children an empowered and balanced childhood.

About Jenna Lee

Jenna Lee Dillon is a solo mama, 4x entrepreneur, Spartan racer, speaker, and author of Look Up! A Wild & Screen Freed Roadmap to Enjoying Travel with Kids. She founded the Screen Freed Revolution to help parents cultivate an indomitable mindset, experience profound joy, and navigate technology boundaries with purpose and peace. Jenna Lee lives with her daughter and their bossy Aussie dog.

Connect with Jenna Lee on her website and Instagram.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.

The Big Tech Gut Check is a super quick, weekly update on all things social media and Big Tech.

Social Media & Big Tech highlights for this week:

Contact your Representative in the House: Visit house.gov and enter ZIP code at the top right to find your representative

Check back on Fridays for everything that parents need to know about the platforms our children are spending hours on every day.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies. These days, parents have access to a safer smartphone for kids called the Bark Phone.

Welcome to Teachers Talk, a series on Scrolling 2 Death featuring candid discussions with teachers. Parents get the real deal on what's happening with screens at school and how tech is affecting students' learning and teachers' jobs.

Today's episode features a 4th - 6th grade teacher in Alaska named Jessica Moore. Jessica does an incredible job breaking down the latest research around kids and screens and gives so many takeaways for parents!

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.

Annie McGrath shares the story of her son Griffin, who tragically passed away at 13 years old after participating in an online challenge. The choking challenge is one of many deadly challenges that social media companies continue to prioritize within their addictive, harmful algorithms.

In this conversation, parents learn how to protect their children from online harms. This includes pushing our elected officials to pass important online safety legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).

KOSA has passed in the Senate and needs passage in the House of Representatives. Visit house.gov to ask your rep to support KOSA!

Please stick around to hear a beautiful and impactful poem that Griffin wrote just weeks before his death, at the end of the episode.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.

The Big Tech Gut Check is a super quick, weekly update on all things social media and Big Tech.

Social Media & Big Tech highlights for this week:

Ask your rep to pass KOSA: Visit house.gov and enter ZIP code at the top right to find your representative.

Check back on Fridays for everything that parents need to know about the platforms our children are spending hours on every day.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies. These days, parents have access to a safer smartphone for kids called the Bark Phone. 

Today, Titania Jordan and I tackle the complicated topic of phone bans in school. We break down the pro(s?) and cons of allowing kids to have phones at school and why schools across the country are demanding phone bans.

If you're a parent or work at a school, this episode is for you.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.

Walker was a hardworking and well-loved teenager who fell victim to a sextortion scheme that led to his tragic suicide. I spoke with Walker's dad, Brian, to learn about sextortion, how it's happening, who is being victimized and how parents can protect our children from this social media harm.

My heart goes out to the Montgomery family for their loss of Walker.

After this tragedy, Walker's family have advocated for protecting kids from sextortion and gotten two bills passed; Walker's Bill (Mississippi House Bill 1196) and the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act (Mississippi House Bill 2531).

If you or your child has been faced with a sextortion attempt, please report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: https://report.cybertip.org

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.

About Brian Montgomery

The Big Tech Gut Check is a super quick, weekly update on all things social media and Big Tech.

Social Media & Big Tech highlights for this week:

Check back on Fridays for everything that parents need to know about the platforms our children are spending hours on every day.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies. These days, parents have access to a safer smartphone for kids called the Bark Phone.

Welcome to Teachers Talk, a series on Scrolling 2 Death featuring candid discussions with teachers. Parents are going to get the real deal on what's happening with screens at school, how tech is affecting students' learning and teachers' jobs.

Today's episode features a high school educator in Canada that we're calling Mrs. C.

This conversation goes way beyond screens in school as Mrs. C shares her experience providing a low-tech household for her three children and restricting social media until at least 16.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.

Isabel Nugent was a talented and brilliant 15-year-old girl who tragically died by suicide. She was beautiful, intelligent, artistic, and athletic. Isabel had a strong sense of social justice and was loved by her friends and teachers.

In October 2023, Isabel died by suicide, and her mother believes that she had obtained information on a dangerous website that promotes self-harm. The website grooms vulnerable individuals and provides detailed instructions on how to die "peacefully" using harmful substances.

This conversation with Isabel's mom Katherine discusses the existence of online suicide assistance forums and the challenges in taking them down.

Protect Children By Contacting Your Representatives

Please contact your Senators (senate.gov) and members in the House (house.gov) and ask them to sponsor House Bill H.R. 9260 (Stop online suicide assistance forums, SOSAF) to ban dangerous website which promote suicide and self harm.

This episode is sponsored by Bark Technologies.