This week is Thanksgiving, and just yesterday, my teen daughter announced that it is her favorite holiday. I thought to myself, “You know your teen is truly ‘adulting’ when they make that declaration.” It is a time for family, friends, and food—and ideally laughter, love, and not too much family tensions.
How to promote shared discussions and shared experiences during this time? Thanksgiving’s themes of gratitude, empathy, and sharing are a perfect launching pad. If put into practice, these traditions are the best medicine we have in the face of all the negativity seen in the media and on the internet.
In fact, I am not even going to discuss screen themes directly. Yet, I strongly believe that when we focus on how to create time for the things we worry screen time is negatively impacting, ultimately it is very much screen-time related. It is all about solutions.
Here are some ideas of where to start:
Please share with others your ideas by leaving a comment at the end of the blog!
Happy Thanksgiving.
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This week is Thanksgiving, and just yesterday, my teen daughter announced that it is her favorite holiday. I thought to myself, “You know your teen is truly ‘adulting’ when they make that declaration.” It is a time for family, friends, and food—and ideally laughter, love, and not too much family tensions.
How to promote shared discussions and shared experiences during this time? Thanksgiving’s themes of gratitude, empathy, and sharing are a perfect launching pad. If put into practice, these traditions are the best medicine we have in the face of all the negativity seen in the media and on the internet.
In fact, I am not even going to discuss screen themes directly. Yet, I strongly believe that when we focus on how to create time for the things we worry screen time is negatively impacting, ultimately it is very much screen-time related. It is all about solutions.
Here are some ideas of where to start:
Please share with others your ideas by leaving a comment at the end of the blog!
Happy Thanksgiving.
If you want to host a screening of the movie in your community, please fill out this form.
Take a look here to see if there’s a screening near you.
*We would love for you to share this TTT any way that works for you, whether that’s on social media or via a newsletter. If you want to send it out in your newsletter we just ask that you credit us and link to our website, and let us know at lisa@screenagersmovie.com.
Do you organize professional development in schools? We now have a 6-hour, 3-part training module. Request more information here Professional Development.
Stay in touch with the Screenagers community on Facebook, Twitter and leave comments below.
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