Is too much of your day spent in a power struggle with your child over screen time?

 

The world moves so fast, and many parents don’t feel equipped to guide their children through such a tech savvy environment. Join Kirsten Mueller (MSW RSW), parent, family therapist, and a thirty-year veteran in the field of Social Work, as she walks you through recent changes to “screen time”, and what it means for all of our brains – especially our neurodivergent children. How does screen time benefit our children? How does it hurt?

 

The struggle is real … so what can parents do?

 

At least half of this workshop will be devoted to concrete suggestions and strategies.

 

By the end of this course, you will have learned a three-step process to ending the power struggle and taking back your family life.

 

Included in this course:

 

- Screens are here to stay, so what are the positive and prosocial impacts of using screens?

- How are dopamine and stress levels related

- What is the everyday reality of parenting a child who overuses screens?

- Learn strategies centre on ways to increase self-determination, so that children are better equipped to make healthy decisions around screens - Learn and reflect on how you can fill your child's "relatedness bucket".

- Increasing a sense of personal competency

- Learn how to allow for autonomy

- Learn how an increased sense of autonomy enable your child to manage their use of screens in a more balanced way?

- Reflect on your own use of screens and how that impacts your child

- Learn how to model balanced use of screens for our children.