Digital Wellness for Families, Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age
A morning at the Starbucks that changed my perspective I walked into a Starbucks in an affluent Kansas City neighborhood at 8 a.m. on a Thursday morning with my coffee order and a business meeting on my mind. What I saw stopped me cold. The place was packed with young...
Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age, Digital Wellness for Families
Three behavioral support counselors. Eighteen hundred students. That’s the math at one Texas high school, and it isn’t unusual. So when a company offers a tool that can listen to every student at once and flag the ones in crisis, of course schools say yes....
Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age, Digital Wellness for Families
The headline you saw is real. Now let’s translate it. On May 20, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the Surgeon General issued a formal advisory classifying youth screen time as an “urgent public health concern.”...
Digital Wellness for Families, Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age
“How much screen time is okay for my kid?” If you’ve ever stood in the kitchen at 5 p.m., tablet in one hand, dinner in the other, asking yourself that exact question — you’re not alone. Figuring out the right screen time by age is one of the...
Digital Wellness for Families, Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age
If you’ve ever tried to pry a tablet out of a six-year-old’s hands — or asked your teenager to put the phone away at dinner — you already know. The battle is real. And you’re not alone in wondering how to limit screen time for kids without turning...
Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age, Screens & Schools
Last summer, while building the Screen Guardians program, I told my husband and colleagues, “One day we will be in a legislative hearing. We will speak about this need and why our program exists.” I didn’t know when it would happen — but I believed...
