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....
Digital Wellness for Families, The Screen Guardians Podcast
Screen Guardians Podcast 38 — parent advocacy in schools with Allie Terry and Liz Jenkins of G-Rated Schools I want to start here: Everything our kids learn about how to live in this world is learned through relationships. Not in isolation. Not in a vacuum. Through...
Digital Wellness for Families
If you have spent the last few years quietly worried about social media addiction in kids — and quietly wondering if you were overreacting — I want you to read this one slowly. In August 2026, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle child-safety claims...
Digital Wellness for Families, The Screen Guardians Podcast
If screen time feels like the one battle you never quite win, you’re not alone. Most conversations about kids and screen time start with a worried parent and end with a shrug. But every so often, the most clear-eyed voice in the room isn’t the expert or...
Screens & Schools, Digital Wellness for Families
If you just got the email that your child’s school is going phone-free this fall, you might be feeling two things at once. Relief. And a little bit of, “…okay, but what about at home?” You’re not alone in that. This year, phone-free schools are...
Digital Wellness for Families, The Screen Guardians Podcast
I talk to a lot of parents who feel like they’re losing their kids to a screen. Not in a dramatic, headline kind of way — just slowly. The bedroom door closes a little earlier. The one-word answers get shorter. And underneath all of it is a question most of us are...