If your child spends just 7.5 hours a day on a screen, they are average.

Yes, you read that right.

That’s 7.5 hours a day outside of school hours, according to the latest research shared by our latest podcast guest, Emily Cherkin - aka The Screentime Consultant™.

She calls it a “5 to 10-year-old problem.”

But the fallout could last a lifetime.

And as Emily shares, our kids aren’t addicted to screens by accident.

Big Tech has spent billions engineering this - to hijack your child’s dopamine, destroy their attention span, and replace human connection with a scrolling feed.

And the worst part?

They’re selling it to you as educational, enriching, and necessary

- when it’s doing the very opposite.

This Podcast Episode Explores

✅ Why screens are not calming your child down
- and what they’re really doing to the nervous system

✅ What’s really being displaced by excessive screen time
(spoiler: it’s not just play and sleep - it’s human development)

✅ Why schools have not escaped this problem - and how the most dysregulated kids are being handed the very tool making them worse

✅ How to begin breaking free - not with shame or perfectionism, but with Emily’s signature “tech intentionality” method: later is better, less is more, relationships before screens

This is one of the most important episodes we’ve ever recorded.

Because we are now in a full-blown screen time crisis.

And our kids - especially our struggling, sensitive, beautiful, misunderstood kids - need us to see it for what it is.

The modern world may be setting them up to fail.

But you don’t have to.

Listen to the podcast episode now...

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Or download our FREE Screen Time Guide