Setting up your family rules and boundaries around screen use can feel like a minefield. You can bounce from feeling overpowered by the lure of screens, to resenting them entirely. So in this episode we help you create solid and grounded foundations to build a healthy family culture around screens.
In this episode we discuss:
- Rules can be nuanced
- different kids can have different rules
- Forgetting hard and fast rules and moving into connection with where they’re at and what they’re consuming.
- Tuning into regulation and dysregulation
- Welcoming disappointment as a valuable life skill
- Having family discussions around how you spend time online
- Creating guidelines around the when, where and how of screen use
- Understanding screens’ addictive nature and the dopamine fallout that can happen afterwards
- Knowing when to intervene
- Handling pushback
- Managing your own reactions
- Checking in with how you feel afterwards
- Taking responsibility for when our kids’ screen time is a reprieve or a resentment for us
- Reflecting on whether they have the skills to handle each new screen app or game
- Keeping it flexible; ‘no’ now, doesn’t mean ‘no’ late
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