Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Parenting is hard. Technology can make it tricky. This podcast helps bring these areas together to help all families create healthy screen habits.
Episodes
December 17, 2025 • 11 mins
Healthy Screen Habits takes a break every year during the holiday season to relax, slow down, and enjoy our own families. Please do the same with yours! On this episode, get ideas for how to have tech-safe and tech-free fun.
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December 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is the author of the stunning new book, "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism". As a professor at American University and director of the University's Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), she has seen firsthand the real damage done to young men through toxic messaging in our online world and advises how to help our boys. Listen now!
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December 3, 2025 • 32 mins
Problematic gaming gets experienced in many households, but can be SO HARD to find any information about! Jennifer J. Park, PhD, has been working on gaming disorder since 2018. After realizing that New Zealand had no existing programs to help people specifically with gaming disorder, Jennifer set out to study this growing concern. Therapists and people at that time were accessing pre-existing addiction programs, but had nothing to ...
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November 26, 2025 • 21 mins
Forget grandma….I GOT SCAMMED. I am so embarrassed - I know better. I literally teach people how to stay safe online. Learn about the latest scams, how I got taken, and how to protect your own family. Listen now!
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November 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Imran Ahmed is the founding CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a leading voice in the fight against online hate, disinformation, and manipulation. From viral conspiracy theories to the influence of AI, CCDH has been pushing for accountability from the biggest tech platforms since it began. If you only listen to one episode this season - make it this one. Listen now!
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November 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Wilder Nicholson and Lori Frome, MEd, worked together on the award-winning documentary, A Stone Unturned, which explores how screen time shapes early childhood and the potential for behaviors that parallel autism. In this episode, we talk about all things surrounding the condition called "virtual autism". Listen now!
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November 5, 2025 • 34 mins
Julia Storm, MA is a Los Angeles-based digital wellness educator and screen time coach. She's a writer, teacher, public speaker, and the founder of Reconnect, a whole-child, whole-family approach to supporting parents while preparing kids for life in the digital age. In this episode, we talk about our kids' digital world, AI bots, and more. Listen now!
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October 29, 2025 • 31 mins
Karl Stillner, a tech entrepreneur, has two boys. Even with his background in technology, he struggled with existing digital tools and wanted a modern approach to parenting that didn't exist in the market. In 2022, he fixed this! He co-founded a service that helps parents engage and prepare kids for digital lives. BrightCanary is the service. Amazingly, it works with Apple products. (Apple products are notoriously difficult to use ...
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October 22, 2025 • 32 mins
Ian McCready was once a 12-hour-a-day gamer; he knows firsthand how easy it is to get lost in technology. As a dad of two, he now helps youth and adults reclaim focus and build healthier digital habits. In this episode, we dive into the addictive components of video games and the potential consequences of spending too much time gaming. We also take a look at Ian's program called SelfCtrl and the steps it uses to help people regain ...
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October 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Gabriela Ngyuen is a Gen Z founder of Appstinence, a student organization of the Harvard Graduate School of Education for people, largely young people, who want to opt out of the attention economy. We talk about social media abstinence and "cell-ibacy" that is being embraced by Gen Zers in this episode. Listen now!
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October 8, 2025 • 32 mins
Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg has focused his career on helping youth develop their own solutions to social problems and teaching adults how to serve them better. As a doctor of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, he sees every day the challenges facing today's youth and parents. On this episode, we discuss the challenges of parentin...
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October 1, 2025 • 31 mins
As we charge forward at breakneck speed into this age of AI and the next chapter of digital technology, we would be wise to start conversations with our children, families, and communities about what we're seeing. Avriel Epps is giving you the tool to do it! As the author of "A Kid's Book About AI Bias," Avriel used a background in social injustice and biases to create the resource missing from their own parenting journey. In this ...
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September 24, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Gillenwater is the former chief technologist for a $10 billion IT company. He has over 30 years of experience, and (most importantly!) he's a dad. As a friendly and calm IT expert @family_it_guy who helps parents navigate their digital parenting journey, Ben offers advice and tips on how to set your family up for safety. This episode is a great conversation.. Listen now!
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September 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Early childhood experts Kailan Carr and Katie Talarico have combined forces to create a FANTASTIC AND FREE new resource for parents and teachers! "Let's Grow Brain P.O.W.E.R.!" is a free resource for schools, community groups, and families, designed to help educate and empower families to focus on what really matters for kids' healthy development. It gives the framework for kids to have experiences and skills that they need to thri...
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September 10, 2025 • 30 mins
Jodi Carreon is a self-described "regular mom" who honestly is anything but!! While volunteering at her kids' school. She discovered students were more focused on screens instead of each other. By accessing the tools and templates at Smartphone Free Childhood US, she founded a local parent group that focuses on limiting and intentionally using technology within her school district.Want to learn more about how YOU can do the same? L...
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September 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Tim Estes is the founder and CEO of AngelQ, a company that values the curiosity and innocence of children, fosters a culture of discovery and unity, inspires courage when facing challenges and remains steadfast in their principles through all their endeavors. And it's done using AI! Interested in learning more? Listen now!
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August 27, 2025 • 6 mins
With every new school year comes a new opportunity to reassess, recalibrate, and review the technology in our homes and classrooms. On Season 14 of the podcast, we are diving deep into AI, chatbots, and more. The hot topic on the front burner for many is AI in schools and companion AI. From chatbots to writing assistance, to smart tutoring apps, to character AI, AI is showing up in homes, homework, and hallways. Let's get into it! ...
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June 11, 2025 • 33 mins
Parents aren't just worried - they are ready to act. Four Norms empowers local parent groups to get things done through the use of collective action. It's never been easier to fight for new norms around kids and technology that you want to see in your community. Four Norms acts as a bridge between organizational expertise and community impact. Specifically designed for grassroots parents' organizations, Four Norms makes stepping in...
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June 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Dan and Dave Gray are the father-son co-founders of BridgeCamp. On this episode we talk about the power of human and relational connection, particularly between parents and their kids. The stronger the connection is between parents and their teens, the more likely the teen will make better and healthier life decisions, especially as they transition into adulthood. Dan and Dave help create oppotunities for connection with BridgeCamp...
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