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Digital Harmony: Realistic Screen Time Strategies for Families, with Gen Muir
In a world where screens are everywhere, it can be challenging to find the right balance for our children.
In today’s episode of The Parenting Couch, we chat with Parenting Educator Gen Muir to help us navigate this digital landscape, offering strategies to create healthy habits and foster a positive relationship with technology.
Whether you're struggling with screen time rules or looking for ways to enhance your child's digital well-being, this episode is packed with actionable advice to make screen time work for your family. Tune in to learn how to set boundaries that are both effective and achievable.
In the episode, we discuss:
- Why screen time isn’t the enemy
- The pressures of modern parenting & how parents shouldn’t be hard on themselves
- How to set healthy boundaries around screen time, what these look like for young kids and how they work with older kids
- How joining your child in some of their screen time can make life better and increase cooperation
- How to use play to bring their screen time interests to life
About Genevieve Muir
Genevieve Muir is a parent educator and founder of Connected Parenting, an obstetric social worker, mother of four boys and LEGO® DUPLO® ambassador.
She is passionate about helping families to connect and thrive amid the many challenges of modern parenting.
Gen has a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) from UNSW and a Graduate Diploma in Grief and Bereavement Counselling. She is also a qualified Circle of Security and Tuning into Kids facilitator.
She has assisted over 40,000 parents on the highs and lows of raising little ones. Author of Big People, Little Feelings published in 2024 and co-host of the Beyond the Chaos Podcast.
Gen has appeared Sunrise, The Morning Show, Studio 10, 2Day FM and ABC, and is a spokesperson for LEGO Duplo, H&M Parent Hub and Kiindred.
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