Rough-And-Tumble Play With Your Kids: Yes, You Can Do it “Wrong”
My kids are running around the perimeter of our house giggling and nervous. I am hiding behind a bush waiting to ambush them. When I do, I growl and chase them for a short while, before finding a new...
View ArticleSelf-Regulation: Why it Matters, and How Your Child Can Build It
Self-regulation is a beautiful concept. In short it means, my kid knows how to manage their own emotions and I have less meltdowns to deal with as a parent. In more fancy terms, a kid’s ability to...
View ArticleEducational Media for Young Children: The Big Lie Worth Big Bucks
There is little regulation of what is deemed and advertised as “educational” for babies and young children. It is largely up to the developer to categorize it as such. Naturally, this term helps...
View ArticleA Good Rule for When Your Kids Should Begin Using a Computer
“When should my child get their own cell phone?” is a popular google search. A less frequent, but equally important question is, “When should my children begin using a computer?” It may be searched...
View ArticleIt’s Not about the “Time”: A Model for Problematic Media Use
How much is too much? This is the number one question I am asked about children’s screen time. There is not a good answer. Some studies do attempt to identify tipping points to answer that question,...
View ArticleTips for Reading Chapter Books Aloud to Young Kids and My Top Nine Best...
I love reading aloud to my children. I’ve read the same picture books so many times that I can recite them on cue. I so appreciated when my little book lovers could follow along with chapter books that...
View ArticleOnly Children: Can They Really Be Screen-Free Too?
My husband hands me some eggs. We are cooking dinner for thirty-eight people. If that sounds complicated, we are also doing it with a two-year-old and a five-year-old in the house. We hit some sort of...
View ArticleScreen Time Effects on Sustained Attention and How to Build Attention Span
The pandemic and the ensuing shift to online learning for many students has dramatically increased the concern over children’s attentional abilities. There is a large body of research on how attention...
View Article3 Things to do When Screens-for-School Sabotage Family Screentime Limits
Contributor: Emily Cherkin, M.A.Ed., is a tech-intentional parent, educator, speaker, and founder of The Screentime Consultant, LLC. She is a public school activist as well as a sought-after...
View ArticleEight Active Outdoor Games for Kids that are Perfect for Friends and Family
We love to get outdoors and play active games with our kids. Tag and hide-and-seek are classics, but sometimes we need a little something more interesting. We notice that since we play a variety of...
View Article6 Simple DIY Kid Forts to Bring Siblings Together
Kids love forts. They will create little nooks and secret spaces out of just about anything. Forts also have the power to bring siblings together in imaginative play. We’re sharing six different types...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Read Recently – The Offline Book Club List 9
We love books. Reading is a big part of our day, every single day, and is an essential part of the SPOIL System, which I recommend all parents do each day to edge out screen time. Here is what we’ve...
View ArticleCelebrate Every Day with a Daily Family Fun Night
Since the global coronavirus pandemic, we have left our house very infrequently. Everything we used to do is now done at home. The adults both work at home. The kids both learn from home. We are...
View ArticleThe 9 Best Parenting Books for Parents of Young Children
I have a strong personal and professional interest in parenting. This has led me to read many parenting books. I’ve noticed that while I am reading a parenting book, I find it easier to focus on doing...
View ArticleWant a Closer Relationship with Your Kids? Engage in Self-Expanding Activities
We have a basic desire to grow and experience new things. Psychologists Aron and Aron term this our “self-expansion” drive. Research has shown that when couples (dating or married partners) engage in...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Read Recently – The Offline Book Club List 10
We love books. Reading is a big part of our day, every single day, and is an essential part of the SPOIL System, which I recommend all parents do each day to edge out screen time. Here is what we’ve...
View ArticleResearch Confirms Limiting Children’s Screen Time Results in Better Habits
A new longitudinal research study comes to the same conclusion: screen time limits have long-term benefits. The study, led by Paul Morgan at Penn State University, examined a national sample of over...
View Article5 Ways to Quiet Your Kid While You’re In a Zoom Meeting
We are in Zoom meetings all day long. We are teaching our college classes using Zoom. We are meeting with students and colleagues on Zoom. We are doing committee work on Zoom. We are Zoomed Out. So,...
View ArticleI Wrote Spoiled Right Just for You and it Will Change the Way you Parent
I am so proud to share this with you. In fact, I wrote this book for you. If kids are supposed to spend less time on screens, what should they be doing instead? Spoiled Right answers that question and...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Read Recently – The Offline Book Club List 6
When you parent screen-free (or limited), there is ample time for great reading. One screen-free kid is an independent reader, the other is emerging, but we still read to both every day. We are...
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