Screens Q&A: No Drama Screen Safety & Success from Toddlers to Teens
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Screens Q&A: No Drama Screen Safety & Success from Toddlers to Teens
What do you do when your kids melt down when you tell them to turn off their screens, work around parental controls, or won’t comply with your rules? How can we compete against that dopamine hit from screens? What if our child is kind of addicted to screen usage? How do we keep our kids safe online? At what age should we allow screens? Kirk answers your toughest questions with practical strategies and insights for kids of all ages.
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| 1:02.5 | off. So what do you do when your kids melt down, whine or complain? When do you just tell |
| 1:09.5 | them turn off their screens? What about kids who work |
| 1:12.5 | around parental controls or won't comply with your rules? How can we compete against that dopamine |
| 1:20.3 | rush that your kids get from playing video games? What if our child is addicted to screen usage? How do we |
| 1:26.7 | keep our kids safe online? And at what age |
| 1:29.6 | should we allow screens in the first place? Well, that is what we're going to discuss on today's |
| 1:35.5 | Q&A episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. Welcome, this is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. |
| 1:40.9 | You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com, where we have a big sale going on for Black Friday. |
| 1:46.7 | So I posted on Instagram and asked what you were struggling with most. And look, I really appreciate |
| 1:52.9 | everybody. You take your time to respond. You shared such great questions. And I tried to pick |
| 1:59.2 | the top questions that would enable me to cover the most |
| 2:02.3 | ground in about 25 minutes and I'll try to get to the other questions on future podcasts. |
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