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.
Jonathan’s Parent & Teacher Talk
Jonathan gets invited to speak at conferences, schools, and parent groups all the time, and he can’t always make it, so he made this video. In this talk, Jon shares the research that underpins the book alongside inspiration and concrete plans, so that school leaders, parents, and all of us can facilitate change in our families, schools, and communities.
Books
Family Resources
Smartphones: Assessing Readiness
A tip sheet for parents and caregivers on introducing a smartphone....
Parent Risky Play Tool
This tool helps parents and caregivers develop skills and confidence that enables outdoor play for the children in their lives...
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...
Digital Addictions: A Family Guide to Prevention, Signs, and Treatment
A guide to assist families in preventing, recognizing, and coping with youth digital addiction....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
Educator Resources
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...
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 ...
ScreenShots Webinar Library
Free webinars on topics relating to parenting, screentime, childhood, and technology. Short, easy to digest, and hitting all the hot topics!...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
The Educational Technology Industrial Complex Timeline
A detailed timeline of the rise ed tech since 1979....
Outside Play Tool for Teachers
Hands-on resource for elementary school teachers to begin locating play and learning outdoors...
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...
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...
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...
Newsletters
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...
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...
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....
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....
One Step
Every month, get 'one step' towards healthy tech use for your family -- practical, actionable, and bite-size tips to support parents!...
Play Makes Us Human
Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living....
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....
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....
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...
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 ...
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....
Videos & Talks
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
The Coddling of the American Mind Movie
An anxious generation searches for happiness. A feature documentary based on The New York Times bestselling book by Greg...
Chasing Childhood Documentary
A feature-length documentary that explores how free play and independence have all but disappeared from kids' lives, sup...
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...
The Great Rewiring of Childhood: A Smartphone-Social Media Dystopia
The release of the iPhone in 2007 profoundly transformed how we interact and experience the world and so marked the dawn...
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...
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 core TAG team member, about children, sma...
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...
Screenagers Movie
An award-winning film that probes into the vulnerable corners of family life and depicts messy struggles over....
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 ...
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...
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...
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: Policy Exchange Talk
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the worl...
Podcasts
The Screenagers Podcast
ScreenStrong Families Podcast
Lenore Skenazy on Armchair Expert
Scrolling 2 Death Podcast
For the Sake of Our Youth Podcast
Are We Over-Parenting Our Kids?
Tech
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...