Hey friends, we were never promised that life would be easy. Sometimes it is hard and super crazy,

but when we do life together, we find that it becomes a lot easier and much more fun.

I believe in joyful life, in happy parenting, healthy marriages, long-lasting friendships,

and making perfect memories and imperfect homes. I love to dig deep and talk about the really

raw things that people are not always comfortable discussing. And I'm also passionate about

sharing practical tips that have helped me to help you

navigate through life less stressfully and more purposefully.

We will laugh together and struggle together.

You will hear honest insights on strengthening your faith and your marriage, parenthood,

how-toes, and so much more so that you can live life and live it with joy.

I am Lindsay Maestis. Welcome to the Living Easy Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Living

Easy podcast. Today is going to be a short and sweet episode that I wanted to record because it is a topic

that blew up on my social media, my Instagram, Living Easy with Lindsay. And I saw just a hunger

for more understanding of it. I received a lot of DMs kind of asking how we navigate

screen time within our home. And I want to be very clear that we do

not do this perfectly, but it is something that's very, very important to me. It may be the nature of

my job and what I research and the things that I see, but it's also impacted my decision of how

we're going to run our home in regards to screens is impacted a lot

by what I see in other children. I have a large scope and a broad audience, I guess I would say,

of people who communicate what their homes look like, what their lives look like. And I also see it

in my neighbors and my friends. And the impact

of screens on a child is so obvious. And I see it within families. I see kind of the zombie like

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