When Fun Becomes Too Much: Talking About Gaming With Your Child//Jennifer J. Park, PhD
Release Date: 12/03/2025
App Pays Teens to Use Phones Less //Corey Scholibo
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
There’s a new app for teens and families that picks up where “blocking apps” stop.Dayo (the app) does not proclaim to be the answer to a parenting solution to mental health problems. Dayo is about getting screen time down by using a proven technique to do it. From there, you can parent and decide how to invest time offline - go bike riding, go on hikes, or play family games together! Listen to this episode and visit the show notes on the Healthy Screen Habits website to gain access to this valuable resource and use code HSH for a free one-month trial.
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I Survived High School With A Flip Phone//Talmage Erickson
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Talmage Erickson is an author, speaker, and digital wellness expert. Having survived high school with a flip phone, he learned what it meant to live beyond the screen. As one of the Screen Guys, Talmage believes in creating intentional balance. This week, we talked about relating to teens in meaningful ways that will help drive connection and make talking about boundaries surrounding technology use easy.
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Screen Aware Childhood//Pat Cantor, Ed.D., Mindy Holohan, MA, CFLE, Jean Rogers, M.S.Ed, CPE
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Happy week of the Young Child! The week of the Young Child is an annual week-long celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (AKA: NAEYC). The purpose of this week is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families, and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. The book I’d like to honor and recognize for this is: Screen Aware Early Childhood, A Realistic Approach to Helping Young Children Thrive in a Digitally Complex World. The authors, Pat Cantor, Mindy Holohan, and Jean Rogers, walk...
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Empowering Parents to Prevent Online Harms//Dawn Wible & Julianna Arnold
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Dawn Wible and Julianna Arnold are co-chairs of the Online Harms Prevention workgroup at Fairplay. Fairplay for Kids is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized screen-obsessed culture, and the only organization dedicated to ending marketing to children. The online harms prevention work group believes children and young people deserve to be safe online. Today, we discuss a helpful kit designed to assist parents in getting a handle on all areas of online harms. Listen to this episode and visit the show notes on the Healthy...
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Big Tech on Trial: A Mother Speaks //Julianna Arnold
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Julianna Arnold is Coco’s mom. Coco is forever 17, having been killed by a fentanyl overdose given to her from someone she trusted online. On this episode, learn how social media companies are finally being tried for addictive product design and how parents of kids who have suffered from online harms are staying strong.
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Encore: Healthy Screen Habits Workbook for Tweens and Teens
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Just as you wouldn't let a new driver take the wheel of a car without proper training, using smartphones requires instruction. Healthy Screen Habits now has a workbook designed for tweens and teens to help them navigate the rules of the road for smartphone use. Healthy Screen Habits Workbook for Tweens and Teens is what we, the founding members of Healthy Screen Habits, wish we had when our oldest kids received their first devices. Learn all about it when you listen to this episode with the authors: Amy Adams and Jeannie Ondelacy Sprague.
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Digital Balance: Overcome Phone Overuse Today //Eli Singer
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Eli Singer is the author of Offline.now: A Practical Guide to Healthy Digital Balance and the founder of Offline.now, a global platform and community for digital balance. Offline. now’s mission is to help people build a calmer, more intentional relationship with technology, using practical, compassionate tools and a supportive community so they can use screens purposefully and focus on what matters most. In this episode, we talk about how to figure out the role you want technology to play in your one, amazing life. Listen...
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How to Live an Analog Life in a Digital World //Frank Possemato
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
In 2020, during the COVID shutdown, Frank Possemato found himself to be a new dad and an online professor. He had time to reflect on the life he wanted for his daughter, as well as take note of the changing world while it moved increasingly online. Inspired by life as he knew it before the digital revolution, he purchased a notebook (with actual coins) and started writing about the importance of offline life. He wanted to remember to be present, to connect with friends and family, and to be tolerant of different versions of shared memories. In this episode, we talk more about life...
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How Families Can Beat the Algorithm: Screen Time Without Blame //Dr. Sajita Setia
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Dr. Sajita Setia is a researcher and global digital wellbeing expert in New Zealand. Her work connects the dots between screen habits, sleep, mood, and the rising mental health crisis in kids. In this episode we talk about: Why “good screen time” can still cause problems. How screens quietly affect sleep and self-esteem A simple game kids actually buy into: name it, move it, time it How families can stop blaming themselves—and start winning together If screen time feels like a daily power struggle in your home, this episode is for you. Listen now!
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Beyond Screens: Healing Teens Through Connection // Kellyn Smythe
Healthy Screen Habits Podcast
Kellyn Smythe is an expert at helping youth transition from living on devices to connecting with the physical world. Since 2014, he has worked at Pacific Quest, a fully licensed and accredited residential mental healthcare establishment on the island of Hawaii. In this episode we talk about layers of mental health care and what to expect with a digital detox. Listen now!
info_outlineProblematic 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 help with gaming specifically.
If you have a gamer at your house or know someone who may be spending a bit more time than others online gaming, this episode is one you won’t want to miss!