Managing Screen Time

Every family will have different amounts of time they think is ‘enough’ and will have different values, tolerances and expectations around screen time.  Also all children are different and so we can allow and expect different things from them when it comes to screen...

Get kids to listen without threats…

We have all been there where we are in a hurry, tired or desperate and just don’t have the energy to keep asking politely; we need our kids to do things and get a move on and they don’t want to. So we grab what is always at hand: ‘threats’. But when we use threats and...

Making Healthy Tech Connections

As parents we are so often told to be a good role model where screen time is concerned and spend less time on our own phones and devices.  We are our kids strongest role model plus we all know we ARE less available when we are glued to the phone! We are also...