Resource Library
Explore impactful resources from our aligned organizations and individuals, including books, Substacks, classroom curricula, and parent guides. You can filter these resources by topic area. All materials aim to assist young people, parents, educators, and legislators roll back the phone-based childhood and restore the play-based childhood.
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We’ve joined forces with Dr. Becky Kennedy, founder of Good Inside, to produce this practical, empowering guide for parents. It contains five simple, actionable strategies for how to set boundaries with your kids (regardless of their age), resist their demands for smartphones and social media, and help them develop confidence, independence, and resilience.
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Books
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Family Resources
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Parent Night Kit
The Parent Night Kit is a turnkey resource to bring Screen Sanity's highly acclaimed program to your school or organization. The all-inclusive k...
"Am I Ready for a Personal Device?" a self-evaluations for parents and teens.
Our "Am I Ready" self-evaluation has helped thousands of families delay the smartphone and make a better choice once kids start asking, "Can I h...
How to organize a block party
No expensive venue. No decorations or favors. No elaborate menu. Block Party USA is simply about relaxing with your neighbors....
Tech Guideline + Family Agreement
It's so nice when everyone is on the same page and there are clear understandings/expectations for the whole family. Our tech agreement is meant...
Let Grow's Parent Resources
To bring more independence and free play into kids' lives, we've got an 'Independence Kit' for parents that helps get kids doing more on their o...
Tech-Healthy Family Hub
In the Tech-Healthy Family Hub you’ll learn from experts and like-minded parents, access proven resources, and take our self-guided courses to p...
Digital Addictions: A Family Guide to Prevention, Signs, and Treatment
A guide to assist families in preventing, recognizing, and coping with youth digital addiction....
Wait Until 8th Digital Training Family Conversation Guides
Our family guides help your team learn and grow together in the digital arena. Print these downloadable guides to facilitate meaningful conversa...
Smartphones: Assessing Readiness
A tip sheet for parents and caregivers on introducing a smartphone....
How to Break Up With Your Phone 30-day text message-based course
A interactive, 30-day, text-message-based course from Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, designed to help you establish...
Parent Risky Play Tool
This tool helps parents and caregivers develop skills and confidence that enables outdoor play for the children in their lives...
Educator Resources
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Kids' Brains & Screens Curriculum
“Kids’ Brains and Screens" is an 8-lesson curriculum designed for students to explore the intricate relationship between screen time and health. Each lesson covers a different topic, ranging from basi...
Phone-Free Schools Campaign
A framework for removing digital distractions from learning. Leveraging a 12-year career in business risk consulting, PYE founder Chris McKenna will guide your Board, school, and families toward a hea...
Outside Play Tool for Teachers
Hands-on resource for elementary school teachers to begin locating play and learning outdoors...
The Educational Technology Industrial Complex Timeline
A detailed timeline of the rise ed tech since 1979....
Be Tech Ready Digital Discipleship Curriculum
BTR is a streaming video curriculum, aligned with ISTE and Catholic Theology Standards, that teaches students how to honor God, humanity, and themselves with their digital choices. We do this through ...
NoSo’s Digital Wellness Detox Program
NoSo’s by-youth-for-youth educational program improves youth mental health by hosting social media detox challenges for students while introducing them to healthy coping strategies to build healthy on...
Let Grow Play Club (free!) guide for schools
As recommended in The Anxious Generation, the Let Grow Play Club is like a wildlife sanctuary for old-fashioned free play in a no phone zone. Schools stay open for mixed-age kids to make own games, so...
ScreenShots Webinar Library
Free webinars on topics relating to parenting, screentime, childhood, and technology. Short, easy to digest, and hitting all the hot topics!...
Social Media Literacy Course
Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it? Integrating expertise across technology, mindfulness, and educational instruction, this interactive course helps young people nav...
The Let Grow Experience (free!) for schools
As recommended in The Anxious Generation: The Let Grow Experience is a homework assignment that tells kids, 'Go home and do something new, on your own, WITH your parents' permission, but without your ...
How to Break Up With Your Phone 30-day text message-based course
A interactive, 30-day, text-message-based course from Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, designed to help you establish a new, healthier relationship with technology. Each day...
Classroom Agreement
It's so nice when everyone is on the same page and there are clear understandings/expectations for the whole classroom. Our tech agreement is meant to be a guide for teachers and administrators to smo...
Early Childhood Educator Outdoor Play Tool
This interactive tool for Early Childhood Educators gives support on risky play, risk management, and guides development of a play for changing practice to support outdoor play....
Tools
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Newsletters
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Generation Tech
We are living in a time of sweeping technological change. This Substack explore the impact that this has on us as humans and what it mean for being a parent today....
Play Makes Us Human
Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living....
Be ScreenStrong
My goal is to help families avoid the screen-based childhood that is harming so many kids today by sharing what I wish I had known before we fell into the screen addiction trap....
After Babel
A Substack to think through, in public, the profound psychological and sociological changes that occurred in the 2010s when human social and political life migrated onto platforms curated by a few for...
Techno Sapiens
Find the latest research on psychology and technology, to strategies for improving mental health, to tips for living and parenting in the digital age....
One Step
Every month, get 'one step' towards healthy tech use for your family -- practical, actionable, and bite-size tips to support parents!...
Of Boys and Men Substack
For up-to-date, relevant, non-partisan and sometimes even fun content about the issues facing boys and men today....
GIRLS
A more intimate look into the lives of girls and young women today. In this age of atomisation, neoliberalism, sexual liberalism, technological dynamism and a deepening mental health crisis, GIRLS is ...
How to Feel Alive Substack
A substack on subjects including fun, phones, screen/life balance, community, connection, parenting, and everyday moments of absurdity and delight....
Designing Tomorrow
A Substack that covers three areas fundamental to the alignment of transformative technologies with psychology-enhancing values: repairing social media, promoting AI value alignment, and defining heal...
The Screentime Consultant Blog
Weekly essays that address all things parenting, screentime, childhood, education, and the digital age! Free and easy to access. Readers can also join the mailing list to receive weekly posts directly...
Videos & Talks
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Ted Talk: iGen: The Smartphone Generation
Dr. Jean M. Twenge tackles society’s smart-phone addiction through a generational lens. As our phones have become more s...
Sean Killingsworth Speech
This can act as a teaser to the 2 longer speeches I can give that are yet to be on camera. The longer speeches are about...
Ted Talk: Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life
Have you had your daily dose of fun? It's not just enjoyable, it's also essential for your health and happiness, says sc...
ReThink: Rethink before you type
Have you ever done or said something and wished you could take it back? Cyber bullying is a bigger problem than you thin...
Kids, Smartphones and Social Media: The Risks and The Solutions
A talk given by Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and founder of Screen/Life Balance, about chi...
Chasing Childhood Documentary
A feature-length documentary that explores how free play and independence have all but disappeared from kids' lives, sup...
Ted Talk: The decline of play
Dr. Peter Gray compellingly brings attention to the reality that over the past 60 years in the United States there has b...
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says desi...
Jonathan Haidt and First Lady of Virginia Suzanne S. Youngkin
Watch Jon’s conversation with the First Lady about how to roll-back the phone-based childhood in schools and at home....
Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones vs. Smart Kids
Jon's talk sharing the research findings from The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an ...
Jonathan Haidt: Policy Exchange Talk
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the worl...
NoSo November Educational Short Film
Watch our short film, featuring Maddie Freeman, and Jeff Orlowski, the Director of The Social Dilemma. To learn about ou...
Ted Talk: How to solve the education crisis for boys and men
While studying inequality and social mobility, Richard Reeves made a surprising discovery: in some countries, like the U...
The Truth About Technology | Gaia Bernstein | TEDxReno
Parents often blame themselves for their children's excessive screen time, seeing it as a failure of their parenting str...
The Social Dilemma
Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live our live...
Podcasts
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Lenore Skenazy on Armchair Expert
Lenore Skenazy is the president of Let Grow, a non-profit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. Lenore discusses the generational differences in growing up, how unrealistic the current standards are for being a good parent, and the importance of allowing children more freedom.
ScreenStrong Families Podcast
Melanie Hempe, BSN, received her bachelors of Nursing from Emory University. Her mission is to create educational programs for kids and parents so no one will experience the pain of screen addiction. Her ability to simplify medical science and provide practical solutions for families has allowed her to share her passion and bold screen solutions nationally. ScreenStrong has won the hearts of many families who are preventing and reversing childhood screen conflicts and addiction and are thrilled to experience a newfound freedom in their lives. Melanie hosts the popular weekly ScreenStrong Families Podcast. She has been featured in Psychology Today, Thrive-Global, The Wall Street Journal, A&E Network, CBS, CNN, NPR, Screened Out (documentary film), and various news and television outlets.
For the Sake of Our Youth Podcast
Mom, Therapist and Author, Tessa Stuckey, discusses the realities of parenting in the digital landscape. Tessa dives into her book and also provides practical tips, conversation and discussion topics, guests and more!
Scrolling 2 Death Podcast
Scrolling 2 Death is a podcast for parents worried about social media.
Are We Over-Parenting Our Kids?
An economics professor at Brown University, Oster has built a massive and loyal audience by providing overwhelmed parents with the information and data they need to make solid and sound parenting decisions in a very confusing world.
Tech
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USA Alternatives to Smartphones
A list of smartphone alternatives for families in the USA....
UK Alternatives to Smartphones
A list of smartphone alternatives for families in the UK....
Neely Center Design Code for Social Media
Using evidence from internal company product work and external studies, Neely Center scholars worked...
How to Select a First Phone for Your Child
A guide to selecting the first phone for your child....
Phone Options Matrix by ScreenSense
Discover the range of phone options currently available (in the US). You CAN meet your growing child...