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7.5 Hours a Day: The Screen Time Crisis We are Sleepwalking into...

July 03, 20251 min read

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.

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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

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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...

On Apple Podcasts

On Spotify

On Our Website

Or download our FREE Screen Time Guide

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