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    ScreenStrong Families

    After her oldest son, Adam, dropped out of college due to his video game addiction, Melanie Hempe, BSN, put her nursing degree and training from Emory University to good use and founded ScreenStrong. It’s her mission 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.

    Host of the popular weekly ScreenStrong Families Podcast, Melanie has been featured in Psychology Today, Thrive-Global, The Wall Street Journal, A&E Network, CBS, CNN, NPR, the documentary Screened Out, and various news and television outlets. Her ScreenStrong Kids’ Brains and Screens Courses are available for parents and students. Her four books include, “Kids’ Brains & Screens: A ScreenStrong Student Course,” “Will Your Gamer Survive College?” “Can Your Teen Survive—and Thrive—Without a Smartphone?” and “The ScreenStrong Solution: How to Free Your Child from Addictive Screen Habits.”

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    Latest Episodes:
    Reset Your Child's Brain with Dr. Victoria Dunckley, Part 1 (#37) Apr 02, 2021
    Show notes

    In this first of two episodes featuring Dr. Victoria Dunckley, Melanie and Victoria discuss the premise of the integrative psychiatrist’s book Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen Time. Victoria explains how she came to be passionate about screen time through her early work with troubled children and adolescents, and then digs into the first part of her book, which covers what she calls “electronic screen syndrome” and how it negatively affects young people. She brings her hands-on experience and medical expertise to bear on the issue in a frank conversation with Melanie. In the upcoming Part 2, Victoria will delve into her practical advice on how to implement the four week plan and what to expect when resetting your child’s brain.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    LIVE "Playstation Nation" Discussion (#36) Mar 26, 2021
    Show notes

    Olivia Bruner, author of our March Book of the Month (BOTM) pick "Playstation Nation" joins the entire ScreenStrong Team and members from our community to answer YOUR questions about video games and kids, how the industry has changed, connecting with your older teen, and so much more!

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    Candid Discussion About Gaming Addiction from a Former Gamer: Adam Brooker (#35) Mar 23, 2021
    Show notes

    The show today is taken from an interview with Adam Brooker about growing up as a gamer. He is very candid with his description of how gamers think, how they trade the real world for the virtual gaming world and their need to dominate. He touches on the dangerous habit of pornography and explains how smartphones and social media are very similar to the gaming trap. Listen to discover if your child has a potential problem, to hear his advice on removing the devices, and for encouragement to be a strong parent.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    Playstation Nation with Olivia Bruner, Part 2 (#34) Mar 19, 2021
    Show notes

    Today Melanie continues her conversation with Olivia Bruner, author of our featured book of the month, Playstation Nation: Protect Your Child From Video Game Addiction. Olivia shares the rest of her family’s story and the steps she and her husband took to replace video games with parental connection and “real life.” Melanie and Olivia discuss the five most common mistakes parents make in attempting to set screen limits. They emphasize “rebuilding the muscles “ of your child’s connection to real life and share ideas for replacement activities for your family.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    ADHD, Anxiety & Screen Addiction with Adrienne (#33) Mar 16, 2021
    Show notes

    Today Melanie is joined by Adrienne, ScreenStrong Ambassador and mom of two teenagers. Adrienne shares her son’s struggle with ADHD, school anxiety, and the difficult decisions their family was forced to make because of his screen addiction. She emphasizes the importance of having like-minded community support because “no one can understand unless they are standing right there with you.” Adrienne also goes into how life changing the ScreenStrong Challenge was for her family and the long term benefits she’s already seeing in her son and daughter.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    Screen Addiction & Parenting with Dr. Sarah Domoff (#32) Mar 12, 2021
    Show notes

    In this episode, Melanie talks with Dr. Sarah Domoff, a Clinical Child Psychologist and the principal investigator for the Family Health Lab at Central Michigan University, Department of Psychology.

    Melanie and Sarah talk about her research studies that she has published and what she discovered in her work that is forming her interventions with the parents she works with. Sarah shares her theory of what she and her collaborators believe on how problematic media use develops in childhood. Her research is focused on identifying the risk factors and maintaining factors for screen addiction or problematic media use within behaviors of children that can then be used as screening tools by professionals. Sarah also shares her work with parents on breaking the cycle of reinforcement of screens by teaching parenting skills, assisting with limit setting, and teaching parents how to implement replacement activities. This episode is one you will want to listen to more than once as it has so much essential information packed into each minute of dialogue.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    Growing Up ScreenStrong with Andrew and Evan Hempe (#31) Mar 09, 2021
    Show notes

    Andrew and Evan Hempe, now 17 years old, grew up in a video game-free home after their older brother’s life derailed due to a gaming addiction. Today, Andrew and Evan are answering parents’ common questions about the ScreenStrong lifestyle from the perspective of high school teens. They discuss what it was like living with a former gamer sibling, how they managed to live through middle school without video games and smartphones, and how they make friends without social media.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    Screen-Free Parenting with Meghan Owenz, Ph.D. (#30) Mar 05, 2021
    Show notes

    In today’s episode, Melanie talks with Meghan Owenz, Ph.D., who is a psychologist, author, psychology professor, and mom of two young children. They discuss and break down Meghan’s child development-based S.P.O.I.L. system for prioritizing activities for your child’s day. Meghan emphasizes maintaining positive parental structure and rules that will ultimately help your child develop good habits and a screen-free lifestyle that is full of doing what they love. Melanie and Meghan connect on their shared fascination for research studies that focus on the benefits of parental limits in regards to screen exposure to young children. Meghan identifies the screen-free process as a “Perspective Shift” for parents and encourages parents to say “Yes!” to all the good things that come from reducing screens in your home.

    Meghan Owenz is the author of Spoiled Right: Delaying Screen Time and Giving Children What They Really Need. Her website Screen-Free Parenting is https://www.screenfreeparenting.com/. It has a blog and other resources that have a ton of screen-alternative activities.

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    Playstation Nation with Olivia Bruner, Part 1 (#29) Mar 02, 2021
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Melanie talks with Olivia Bruner, one of the authors of our featured book of the month, Playstation Nation: Protect Your Child From Video Game Addiction. Olivia shares her family's journey with video game use and addiction, which ultimately led to the creation of their book Playstation Nation, to help other families identify and address video game addiction. Melanie and Olivia discuss the 8 Warning Signs or Questions to help determine if your child has a problem with game addiction. They explore the addictive nature of video games and how gaming affects the brain. Olivia identifies the reward pathways of addiction in where basic feedback leads to adaptation of your brain's dopamine reward pathways. She also identifies the 7 driving forces behind the compelling nature of video games and how science is now providing proof to a parent's intuition. This episode is fast-paced, anecdotal, and stresses how our children's addiction to video games is not their fault. It's truly one you don't want to miss!

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

    LIVE "The Collapse of Parenting" Discussion (#28) Feb 26, 2021
    Show notes

    Dr. Leonard Sax, author of our February Book of the Month (BOTM) pick "The Collapse of Parenting," joins the entire ScreenStrong Team and members from our community to answer YOUR questions about screens and kids, the American pharmaceutical companies, and so much more!

    Support the show

    Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!

    • Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!
    • Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!
    • Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.
    • Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!

    ScreenStrong Tech Recommendations

    • Canopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)

    Production Team:

    • Host: Melanie Hempe
    • Producer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

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