If you missed last week’s blog, Introducing Our Screen-Free Sleep Campaign, we hope you’ll take a moment to read it. Also, be sure to learn more about the Screen-Free Sleep campaign and pledge your support at the website!
Since then, we’ve been flooded with emails and calls, and most are asking the same question: How can we get this spreading in our school?
Today we have the answers!
But before that, watch the video from our big New York City launch where Broadway actors and dancers performed a Flash Mob dance throughout the city! Share it with the kids in your life, it’s guaranteed to make them smile!
For a wide range of materials, check out our campaign toolkit which includes a short guide with simple ideas on how to activate screen-free sleep in your school or community.
And yes, all four of our Screenagers films touch on sleep and the importance of keeping devices out of bedrooms at night.
That makes hosting a screening of our movies at your school or in your community, a great opportunity to introduce Screen-Free Sleep! We have a handout you can use and a short guide that includes fun, ready-to-use ideas to spark action afterwards.
Questions to get the conversation started:
One more video from our campaign:
As part of the Screen-Free Sleep campaign, we created the iSleep Pro to show parents a powerful truth: that the best tech for kids at bedtime… is no tech at all. Enjoy here, the keynote speech!
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If you missed last week’s blog, Introducing Our Screen-Free Sleep Campaign, we hope you’ll take a moment to read it. Also, be sure to learn more about the Screen-Free Sleep campaign and pledge your support at the website!
Since then, we’ve been flooded with emails and calls, and most are asking the same question: How can we get this spreading in our school?
Today we have the answers!
But before that, watch the video from our big New York City launch where Broadway actors and dancers performed a Flash Mob dance throughout the city! Share it with the kids in your life, it’s guaranteed to make them smile!
Finally, after years of wanting to do this, Lisa Tabb and I, along with our Screenagers team, have launched a national campaign to get devices out of the bedroom at sleep time for elementary and middle schoolers.
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Have you ever read a magazine in a dentist's chair, and it made you want to jump out of the chair? That is what happened to me when I saw an ad, which is the photo of today’s blog. I was completely shocked that people in the industry would have the nerve to imply that taking a drug is how a small child “sleeps naturally.”
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Understanding just how much insufficient sleep affects our children is a motivator to help them get the best sleep possible. As kids return to school, resetting sleep habits and rules around tech in the bedroom is hard but imperative. I share why sleep is so important and what you can do to help make a tech-free bedtime less painful. Most importantly, I share some of my favorite ways to set and maintain rules around sleep time - They might surprise you!
READ MORE >for more like this, DR. DELANEY RUSTON'S NEW BOOK, PARENTING IN THE SCREEN AGE, IS THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR TODAY’S PARENTS. WITH INSIGHTS ON SCREEN TIME FROM RESEARCHERS, INPUT FROM KIDS & TEENS, THIS BOOK IS PACKED WITH SOLUTIONS FOR HOW TO START AND SUSTAIN PRODUCTIVE FAMILY TALKS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND IT’S IMPACT ON OUR MENTAL WELLBEING.
