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:

0:00 Intro
2:39 How Melanie became interested in screen safety
15:45 Kids 05
23:02 How long will it take to detox?
29:40 The science behind screens
33:07 Kids 612 year olds
42:40 “I want to reduce screentime, 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   / bescreenstrong  
Canopy https://canopy.us/
Melanie’s son’s perspective on growing up without screens https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
How to teach young kids to play on their own    • Your Toddler CAN Play By Themselves. ...  

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ABOUT THE MINIMAL MOM:

Hi, I'm Dawn, if we haven't met before, I'm married to Tom and we have four kids ages 813. We live outside of the Twin Cities in MN and have called ourselves minimalists for 8 years now. We got rid of 85% of our stuff and don't miss ANY OF IT!

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