Smartphone Free Childhood US hosts Emily Cherkin, The Screentime Consultant, and Nicki Petrossi, of Scrolling to Death, for a conversation about opting out of EdTech and school-issued devices.

During the summer any parents worry about healthy habits slipping away. We’ll explore practical strategies to help your child thrive this summer and beyond.

Join me for a free webinar with Benjamin Riley, co-author of The Education Hazards of Generative AI to discuss the effect of AI infiltrating the classroom.

This will be a fascinating look at how school-issued tech became so enmeshed in education, what we need to know, and what we can do about it.

Find out how a Tech-intentional™ framework will help properly prepare children for a future that grows more technoligical each day.

In this webinar, Emily Cherkin, M.Ed. and Dr. Farrell will discuss how excessive technology in schools impacts learning.

If you're a parent who feels overwhelmed with help your struggling child, please join Emily and Nicole conversation in the February 2025 webinar

Addiction expert Dr. Jim Winston, Jr. and Emily Cherkin, author of "The Screentime Solution," join us to discuss media addiction and kids.

Elizabeth Milovidov, founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com, and child development experts share research-backed strategies on how to promote child well-being

Join Mike and Emily Cherkin, the Screentime Consultant in a conversation about screentime and ADHD. Free registration for this January 2025 webinar.

In this FREE webinar, Emily Cherkin M.Ed. and Lenore Skenazy, the Author of Free Range Kids discuss how phones affect parents and parenting.

It is becoming increasingly clear that children use digital technologies for some or most of their school day

Parental controls cannot replace the importance of real-life relationships. We have to focus on building our relationships first. 

EdTech includes school-issued student computers or tablets, learning management systems, grading portals, digital curricula, and YouTube.

No one brought home a school laptop or logged into a digital platform to check homework assignments.

Persuasive design is a combination of behavioral psychology and software development that intentionally hooks into our dopamine response loop.

Tech companies and app developers make money from advertising, which means they need us to spend more time engaging with their products.

Don’t worry– there are concrete things we can do to address our adult use of screens that will positively impact how our kids use them!

Today, parents download apps to help children read by age four and teach coding skills to prepare them for tech-based careers.

Listen to The Screentime Consultant explain how values should be the foundation for any family screentime rules.

Children often resist rules because they don’t understand them. This is logical. When something makes sense, it’s easier to go along with. 

Scary things are things we worry about but are unlikely. Dangerous things are likely and should be at the forefront.

Many of our children have access to devices that give them unlimited access to violent images, disturbing content, and worse.

Setting boundaries is actually something our kids need. But how we do it matters.

Congratulations! Your kid wants a smartphone. Now what?

After a long year of using laptops all day at school, it can be really difficult to set screentime boundaries at home.

You've spent the summer battling over screens and now they are being influenced all day long by peers.

After a long year of using laptops all day at school, it can be really difficult to set screentime boundaries at home.