Is She Ready for Social Media? Why Waiting Isn’t the Whole Answer
Screen Guardians Podcast 41 — Crossing the Bridge to Social Media, with Krista Boan “Everyone has it. I’m the only one who doesn’t.” If you’ve heard that sentence at your kitchen table, you already know how hard this season is. We spend so much energy asking when kids...
It’s an Unfair Fight: What the Your Attention Please Documentary Taught Me About Kids, Big Tech, and Why Education Can’t Wait
Screen Guardians Podcast 40 — It’s an Unfair Fight, with Sara Robin, Kristin Bride, and Trisha Prabhu I watched the Your Attention Please documentary over a weekend, and when it ended I had to sit for a minute. It’s a heavy film. It follows the families, young people,...
Kids Screen Time Isn’t the Right Measure. Here’s What Is.
Screen Guardians Podcast 39 — The Cost of Free, with Ben Gillenwater, the Family IT Guy How many minutes was she on the tablet today? Is two hours too much? For years, kids screen time has been the number families and schools try to manage. On this episode of the...
What Happened to Childhood? Kids Growing Up Too Fast
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...
AI Chatbots for Student Mental Health: What Schools Still Owe Kids
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....
A K–12 digital health and safety program for students, teachers and parents. Not anti-technology. Pro-child.
