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Calm Parenting Podcast

Child Doesn’t Want Any Restrictions on Screen Time? 4 Script Options

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Education, Relationships, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Child Doesn’t Want Any Restrictions on Screen Time? 4 Script Options

Your kids call you controlling and too strict. They don’t want any limits on their screen time, won’t keep parental controls on their phone, and turn off location tracking. Kirk gives you four different ideas, complete with scripts and action plans. Learn more at https://celebratecalm.com


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off. I bet you can't relate to this at all. So here's a common question. My son doesn't want to have

1:10.7

any limits on his screen time,

1:12.5

won't keep parental controls on his phone, and turns off location tracking so I can't see where

1:17.7

he goes. He says I'm too strict in controlling. What should I do? Well, that is what we're going

1:24.1

to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. Welcome. This is Kirkmartin. I'm founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. If you need help, reach out to our son, Casey. You'll hear a little bit about him in this podcast about how we handle that. It's C-A-S-C-Y at Celebrate Calm.com. Tell us about your family. Whether the ages of the kids,

1:44.7

what are you struggling with most? We get together as a family, talk about it. We will reply back

1:48.5

to you directly with some very specific strategies for you to try if you need help with any of our

1:55.7

programs. Ask Casey about it. It'll help you if you need to help financially. So let's jump into this.

2:01.6

So my first question for you is, are you too strict in controlling in other areas?

2:07.8

Right. I can't answer that for you in a podcast. But do some inner reflection on that, right?

2:13.6

Do you tend to micromanage your child do you lecture too much are you overly involved trying to

2:19.9

make your child somehow be successful right those are just good questions ask yourself right you know our

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