PSP: 256 How Anxiety & OCD Impact Tech Use
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
As parents, we all struggle with our children’s tech use. It seems like most kids have their heads buried in their phone, computer or game console.
But what if it goes deeper? What if they are using technology to avoid their anxiety or OCD? What if they are using tech to do compulsions? Or what if tech is part of what is actually growing their anxiety?
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about how anxiety and OCD impact tech use and what we can do about it.
If you want a deeper dive into how to manage your child/teen’s usage, develop family contracts, and learn hacks to keep them safe, check out the awesome online course by Dr. Adam Pletter, iParenting 101: Parenting in the Digital World.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through |
| 0:08.1 | the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of |
| 0:16.5 | a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | Today I'm going to talk to you about how to handle tech electronics. |
| 0:34.6 | I was talking to my kids today. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm like, which word would sound more relatable, tech or electronics? |
| 0:40.5 | Do you want tech is? |
| 0:42.0 | And they thought I was trying to be too cool, which I wasn't. |
| 0:44.0 | I was just trying to come up with the right word for this episode. |
| 0:48.4 | But tech seems to be the one that we're going to focus on. |
| 0:52.0 | So anxiety and OCD impact, tech use, and when I say tech, I'm talking about any technology. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm talking about your child's bone or their iPad or their computer or their game console, |
| 1:04.6 | just how they get plugged in and how that impacts their anxiety or OCD. |
| 1:10.0 | Kind of a big topic really. |
| 1:12.2 | This again is a topic that was offered to me from the members of the AT Parenting Community. |
| 1:18.3 | So shout out to the AT Parenting Community for generating a huge list of podcasts and |
| 1:24.7 | YouTube suggestions on topics because I was stumped and I asked the community. |
| 1:29.8 | And I'm going through them systematically. |
| 1:31.4 | I hope that you guys who are AT Parenting members recognize and can tell these are the topics |
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