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How Do I Handle Screen Time With My Kids?

Screen time for kids is tricky: While we love the guaranteed down time it provides, we don't love the addictive nature, the meltdowns, or the protests... Tune in as Dr. Becky answers your pressing questions about what's really happening during screen time, what strategies you can use to manage it, and why it never feels like enough - for any of us. Join Good Inside Membership: http://www.goodinside.com Follow Dr. Becky on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside Sign up for our weekly email, Good Insider: https://www.goodinside.com/newsletter Want more? Check out these videos! Why Won't my Kids Listen to Anything I Say? - https://youtu.be/Rb7FSL1y3Oo Deep Dive: @sharonsaysso on Preparing Kids for Social Media and the Internet - https://youtu.be/map0jfH7OLs Why Won't My Kids Listen To Anything I Say? - https://youtu.be/Rb7FSL1y3Oo Deeply Feeling Kids Need a Different Approach - https://youtu.be/WQNM5EyDtKE Motherhood Doesn’t Have to Be Martyrdom - https://youtu.be/ywJMtRHzqFY

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May 6, 2022
Duration
28m
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Good Inside with Dr. Becky
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Screen time for kids is tricky: While we love the guaranteed down time it provides, we don't love the addictive nature, the meltdowns, or the protests... Tune in as Dr. Becky answers your pressing questions about what's really happening during screen time, what strategies you can use to manage it, and why it never feels like enough - for any of us. Join Good Inside Membership: http://www.goodinside.com Follow Dr. Becky on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside Sign up for our weekly email, Good Insider: https://www.goodinside.com/newsletter Want more? Check out these videos! Why Won't my Kids Listen to Anything I Say? - https://youtu.be/Rb7FSL1y3Oo Deep Dive: @sharonsaysso on Preparing Kids for Social Media and the Internet - https://youtu.be/map0jfH7OLs Why Won't My Kids Listen To Anything I Say? - https://youtu.be/Rb7FSL1y3Oo Deeply Feeling Kids Need a Different Approach - https://youtu.be/WQNM5EyDtKE Motherhood Doesn’t Have to Be Martyrdom - https://youtu.be/ywJMtRHzqFY

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  • Dr. Becky

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    Clinical psychologist and founder/host of Good Inside, offering parenting guidance and tools.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Good Inside with Dr. Becky, featuring Dr. Becky, How Do I Handle Screen Time With My Kids? explores practical screen-time boundaries by building regulation, authority, and independent play More screen time can increase tantrums and aggression not because of “bad content” but because screens deliver high reward with low effort, lowering kids’ frustration tolerance when real life feels harder.

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