Episode 34 - Navigating Screen Time For Babies, Toddlers and Families with Dr Kristy Goodwin

Summary: Dr Kristy Goodwin is one of Australia’s leading digital wellbeing and productivity experts. She’s the author of Raising Your Child In A Digital World, a speaker, media commentator and digital wellbeing researcher. In a world where technology is constantly at our fingertips, it’s often hard to navigate what is right when modulating it for ourselves and even more importantly, for our children. Dr Kirsty prides herself on aiming to take the guesswork and guilt out of raising kids in the digital age as well as helps parents ditch techno-guilt and raise happy, healthy kids who thrive both online and offline. During this episode we discuss impacts of technology, practical ways of controlling it for children, and why we, as parents, sometimes find it hard to stop the scroll and put our phones down. For all our listeners, Dr Kristy is offering you a 20% discount off her Switched on Parents' Portal with videos of her most popular parent seminars, eBooks and mini masterclasses by using the code ‘PARENTS’. She also has a free digital wellbeing checklist that parents might be interested in downloading and a digital distraction and dependence quiz (for adults) too. IG handle: @drkristy