Creating Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option | Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr (EP417)

Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Leisure, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re all using — and parenting around — a technology we didn’t grow up with, so it makes sense that we feel overwhelmed. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr, researcher, professor, and author of Smartphone Nation, to talk about how we can move from feeling powerless to empowered in our digital lives. Dr. Regehr introduces her groundbreaking concept of “digital nutrition,” a framework that helps us understand which types of screen time nourish us — and which quietly drain our energy, focus, and joy. Together, we explore how to set thoughtful tech boundaries, guide our kids toward healthy digital habits, and reclaim presence and peace in a hyperconnected world.

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Book: Smartphone Nation: Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option

About Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr |

Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr is a world-renowned expert on the cultural impacts of social media. She’s an Associate Professor and the Program Director of Digital Humanities at University College London. Dr. Regehr appears regularly in the media as an expert on this subject, including on BBC News, ITV, BBC Women’s Hour, Channel 4 and in The Economist. She is a prominent voice in the media, a key influence in public policy circles, and a mother of two.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The digital space has great value.
0:03.4	And to us as parents, it has great value.
0:06.5	The fact that we are freed from the desk, the fact that you can take that Friday afternoon
0:11.8	off to push a swing simply because you have a smartphone.
0:17.1	That is true.
0:18.2	And that social media gave us platforms to speak from like never before,
0:22.4	particularly that is the case for women and minorities. And so how do we hold on to the good
0:29.5	of technology, the flexibility that it brings, the freedom? How do we embrace the fact that it
0:36.5	has allowed women actually to be around their
0:40.4	kids and maybe have a job at the same time and be much more flexible in that? How do we balance
0:46.2	those good things with the bad things? This is Diane Bowden and you're listening to the
0:50.9	minimalist moms podcast. We're all using and parenting around a a technology we didn't grow up with, so it makes sense that we feel overwhelmed.
1:00.0	In today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Caitlin Regare, researcher, professor, and author of Smartphone Nation, to talk about how we can move from feeling powerless to empowered in our digital lives.
1:11.1	Dr. Rieger introduces her groundbreaking concept of digital nutrition,
1:16.0	a framework that helps us to understand which types of screen time nourish us
1:19.9	and which quietly drain our energy, focus, and joy. Together we explore how to set
1:24.2	thoughtful tech boundaries, guide our kids toward healthy digital habits,
1:27.5	and reclaim presence and peace in a hyper-connected world. But before we get there, I quickly want to
1:32.3	share a minimalist resource with all of you. This is a post from At Your Brain underscore on money,
1:39.4	talking about how convenience culture is making us meaner. This quick post is excellent. I'll be sure to link it in the show notes, but the point of the post is how convenience culture is making us meaner. This quick post is excellent. I'll be sure to link it in the
1:45.0	show notes, but the point of the post is how convenience culture removed humans from transactions,
1:50.2	self-checkout, chatbots, automated everything. And the cost is that we lost the practice of
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