I’m excited to have Andrea Davis with us today from Better Screen Time. She has excellent content and I have been really looking forward to having her on this podcast to help you guys get a better idea of how to create a healthy family tech plan. Andrea is a former secondary ed teacher turned screen time navigator. She is the founder of Better Screen Time where she shares family tested ideas from the tech trenches as a mom of 5. She’s on a mission to help parents worry less about tech and connect more with their kids.

How Andrea got to where she is 3:05
Parenting from a place of fear and being prepared to change 8:57
Getting the kids to talk 14:47
Thumbs up and thumbs down list 18:57
Rephrasing 21:47
How young to start talking about the do’s and the don’ts 25:28
Was there more face to face communication? 29:08
Introducing tech in a 4 phase process 32:53
Self awareness and self evaluation for teens 37:36
At what age to give a kid a smartphone 42:52
Being a master of technology and not a slave 44:04
Having these conversations often 49:12
Her website and where to get her book and access her courses 57:10

“Those were the kinds of questions we asked our kids and just said ‘You have to be able to think about, first of all the content that you’re viewing. How does it make you feel? And is it in line with your values, or our family’s values? And too, the time that you’re spending. Is that the best place to spend your time?’” “Is that going to help us become the person that we want to become?” 45:19

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