Screen Time SOS: Simple Steps to Rescue Your Child from Digital Overload

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Are your kids suffering from digital overload? Do you wonder if it’s too late for your already addicted kids? Listen as Dawn speaks with Melanie Hempe on screen addiction and how to help our kids thrive in a digital age. ABOUT MELANIE: Melanie Hempe helps parents prevent screen addiction, rescue their kids, and enjoy family life again. After her oldest son dropped out of college due to his video game addiction, Melanie Hempe, BSN, utilized her nursing degree from Emory University to warn families about the dangers of screen overuse and founded ScreenStrong. Melanie simplifies medical science for parents, empowering them with the reasons to skip not all screen use but the most harmful screen use—social media, violent video games, and pornography—through adolescence. IN THIS EPISODE: 2:39 - How Melanie became interested in screen safety 15:45 - Kids 0-5 23:02- How long will it take to detox? 29:40 - The science behind screens 33:07 - Kids 6-12 year olds 42:40 - “I want to reduce screen-time, where do I begin?” 44:44 - “What if it’s my spouse who is addicted?” 48:40 - Kids Brains and Screens book LINKS MENTIONED: Kids Brains and Screens book - https://amzn.to/3U4p1uX The Screen Strong Solution book - https://amzn.to/3xFckPD Be Screen Strong IG - https://www.instagram.com/bescreenstrong/ Canopy - https://canopy.us/ Melanie’s son’s perspective on growing up without screens - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-teen-q-a-on-growing-up-without-addictive-screens-179/id1474681355?i=1000641960104 How to teach young kids to play on their own - https://youtu.be/6BlKIluXMcE?feature=shared Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	And she said, no, Melissa, she's going to have to get a phone and she's going to have to have social media because that's where all the friends are.
0:06.1	So here's the doctor. Here's the prescription we use.
0:09.4	All of our friends are on this anxiety medication for social media anxiety.
0:14.1	And I'm looking at her like, are you kidding me?
0:16.6	You may trust your fifth grader and you may tell them, don't click on this and don't do this.
0:20.7	And they're going to be like, okay, mommy, I won't.
0:22.9	But honey, let me tell you when they hit 15, they are going to use screens very differently.
0:29.5	I have a 16-year-old.
0:30.8	They have a smartphone.
0:31.9	They have social media.
0:33.1	They play video games.
0:34.3	Like, where do I even begin?
0:35.7	I mean, I can't just go in and take it all away can I?
0:38.3	What do I do? Welcome to the minimal mom podcast. Don reaches a million women each month with
0:44.1	practical tips to simplify your home. Today, Dawn is joined by Melanie Hempey from ScreenStrong.
0:50.8	Melanie helps parents prevent screen addiction after she saw the devastating effects of video game addiction and her oldest son.
0:57.8	Melanie uses her nursing degree and brain science to educate families about the dangers of screen overuse.
1:04.1	Melanie, I've been following you guys on Instagram for a while.
1:06.8	Your Instagram account is Be Screen Strong.
1:09.6	And you provide such great information for moms and
1:15.6	parents and families trying to navigate the digital world with our kids. And we were visiting
1:20.8	a little bit before we started about, I said, here's the deal. I don't want to put more guilt
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