Resource Library

"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...

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...

Smartphones: Assessing Readiness

A tip sheet for parents and caregivers on introducing a smartphone....

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-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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Parent Risky Play Tool

This tool helps parents and caregivers develop skills and confidence that enables outdoor play for the children in their lives...

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...

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 ...

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....

ScreenShots Webinar Library

Free webinars on topics relating to parenting, screentime, childhood, and technology. Short, easy to digest, and hitting all the hot topics!...

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...

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 ...

The Educational Technology Industrial Complex Timeline

A detailed timeline of the rise ed tech since 1979....

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...

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...

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...

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 Feel Alive Substack

A substack on subjects including fun, phones, screen/life balance, community, connection, parenting, and everyday moments of absurdity and delight....

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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....

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....

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 ...

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....

Chasing Childhood Documentary

A feature-length documentary that explores how free play and independence have all but disappeared from kids' lives, sup...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 founder of Screen/Life Balance, about chi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Lenore Skenazy on Armchair Expert

Lenore Skenazy is the president of Let Grow, a non-profit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and the founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. Lenore discusses the generational differences in growing up, how unrealistic the current standards are for being a good parent, and the importance of allowing children more freedom.

Scrolling 2 Death Podcast

Scrolling 2 Death is a podcast for parents worried about social media.

ScreenStrong Families Podcast

Melanie Hempe, BSN, received her bachelors of Nursing from Emory University. Her mission is to create educational programs for kids and parents so no one will experience the pain of screen addiction. Her ability to simplify medical science and provide practical solutions for families has allowed her to share her passion and bold screen solutions nationally. ScreenStrong has won the hearts of many families who are preventing and reversing childhood screen conflicts and addiction and are thrilled to experience a newfound freedom in their lives. Melanie hosts the popular weekly ScreenStrong Families Podcast. She has been featured in Psychology Today, Thrive-Global, The Wall Street Journal, A&E Network, CBS, CNN, NPR, Screened Out (documentary film), and various news and television outlets.

For the Sake of Our Youth Podcast

Mom, Therapist and Author, Tessa Stuckey, discusses the realities of parenting in the digital landscape. Tessa dives into her book and also provides practical tips, conversation and discussion topics, guests and more!

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...

Phone Options Matrix by ScreenSense

Discover the range of phone options currently available (in the US). You CAN meet your growing child...