Healthy Screen Habits Podcast

Mar 04 2025 100 ep. 29 mins 7
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Parenting is hard. Technology can make it tricky. This podcast helps bring these areas together to help all families create healthy screen habits.

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1 Year of Fun With 52 Screenfree Ideas for Families!//Kathleen Barlow

Mar 04 2025 39 mins  
Kathleen Barlow is a mom of 6 and grandmother of 3, as a former middle school and high school French teacher she had a front row to watch the increasingly negative impact of phones in schools and their effects on connection. She has dedicated her time to helping schools develop better cell phone policies and families build better connections. Kathleen has created a great tool and

Silicon Valley's Secret Sauce/Dr. Richard Freed

Feb 25 2025 37 mins  
Richard Freed is a psychologist and author of the new book "Better Than Real Life: How Silicon Valley's Secret Science of Persuasive Design Is Stealing Childhood. Dr. Freed has devoted his career to revealing how Silicon Valley industry is using psychology—a discipline that we associate with healing—as a weapon against kids in order to pull them online and keep them there. This

When SnapChat Kills//Sam Chapman//Parent Collective Inc.

Feb 18 2025 38 mins  
Sam Chapman is the father of Sammy Chapman (forever 16) and CEO of The Parent Collective Inc., a California non-profit operating in the areas of social media harm and fentanyl poisoning education and activism. The Parent Collective also provides grief support for those left behind. Sammy Chapman died the night he took a counterfeit pill that was laced with fentanyl. He bought this

Talking To Your Kids About Tech Overwhelm//Dr. Rebecca Wallace//Children's Hospital New Orleans

Feb 11 2025 32 mins  
Dr. Rebecca Wallace became a mental healthcare provider because she wanted to fill in the gaps. She goes the extra mile to support the mental and emotional health of patients with medical conditions as they go through the process of diagnosis, treatment, and life. In this episode, we talk about how to balance tech time when you have an ill child as well as how to manage media overw

Scrolling to Death//Nicki Reisberg

Feb 04 2025 29 mins  
A former social media executive turned social media reform advocate, Nicki Reisberg, hosts Scrolling to Death, a podcast for parents who are worried about social media. It's a safe space to amplify stories of harm while educating parents on how to keep their kids safe in a world that is trying to addict and manipulate them. In this episode learn all about social media, the broken

Chat Bots, Warning Signs, and More//Ashley Harlow PhD, MBA

Jan 28 2025 34 mins  
Dr. Ashley Harlow is a dad of four who definitely understands the complexities of parenting with healthy boundaries around screen time. As a licensed child and adolescent psychologist at Children's Nebraska in Omaha, he has practical tips that can empower families to create a balanced approach. On this episode we talk about social media, chatbots and warning signs of depression to

Death By Fentanyl Bought On SnapChat//Amy Neville//Alexander Neville Foundation

Jan 22 2025 33 mins  
Since losing her son Alexander, Amy Neville has dedicated her life to educating and spreading awareness of the dangers that killed him. If you are familiar with her work, you know that she cannot say enough about the pain of losing her baby, but she points out that this is bigger than one fourteen-year-old. So many more adolescents and people of all ages are having their lives cut

Ex-SnapChat Executive Shares What She Knows To Keep Your Kids Safe//Sarah Trombley

Jan 14 2025 34 mins  
Sarah Gallagher Trombley is on a mission to help parents navigate the digital world with and for their kids by providing insight, advice, and practical tips. Her work and messages cover a wide range of digital topics, including social media, new tech, and apps. As a former Snapchat executive, she saw firsthand how tech companies make decisions about child safety. (spoiler alert: it

What Happened to KOSA? & Here Comes 2025

Jan 07 2025 8 mins  
KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act — lifesaving legislation that would ensure social media platforms have real protections for young people — did not pass Congress. For the last few years, there has been bipartisan support across the political spectrum to legislate for safer spaces online, but ultimately House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise sided with Big

Screen Balanced Holiday Tips and a Few Blunders //Hillary Wilkinson, M.Ed

Nov 19 2024 11 mins  
As always, the Healthy Screen Habits Podcast crew is going on a holiday hiatus as we walk our talk and spend time with our own families during these very fun festive days. Thank you so much for spending time with us and learning more Healthy Screen Habits together. The Podcast will be back and exploring more in 2025! Listen to this to hear all about tech free gifts and why perfecti