77. Navigating Screen Time Challenges: Insights from Emily Jones

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Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant battle to manage your children's screen time? Maybe you worry that it’s too late?

Today’s guest, Emily Jones, is the brain behind Family Tech University and shares her insights with us today on how to approach this modern parenting dilemma.

She emphasized that while it's crucial for parents to set effective boundaries around technology use and provide guidance, it's equally essential to empower our kids to develop their own internal filter when it comes to technology. We want to raise independent young adults, also when it comes to screen time

In this episode on navigating screen time challenges, we discuss:

• How to start putting boundaries even when you feel it’s too late;
• The importance of fostering an internal filter in our children;
• The difference between demonizing technology and putting healthy boundaries;
• Modeling healthy behavior around technology and screen usage;
• And more!

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About today’s guest:

Emily Madsen Jones is co-founder with husband Dave of Family Tech University; an organization with a paradigm-shifting perspective on powerful tech parenting. She is a writer, author, speaker, and teacher... but her best wisdom on the technology parenting was gleaned from motherhood, via 5 non-perfect, fiercely adored children.

You can connect with Emily on Instagram or Facebook.

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