Creating A Family: Talk About Infertility, Adoption & Foster Care

When should your child get a smartphone? What can you do if your child spends too much time playing video games? How can we protect our kids from the downsides of social media? Join us to talk about parenting and technology with Krista Boan, co-founder of the nonprofit Screen Sanity.In this episode, we cover:Digital Health: Screen Sanity’s 5 Rules of Thumb.Ride, practice, drive” approach for device and app introduction.How to handle a foster, adoptive, or kinship placement of a child that has already gone down that slippery slope of too much screen time and tech. How do you establish reasonable boundaries?Is it still recommended that parents establish a "no expectation of privacy" policy for online activity? At what age/stage should that start to change?How to handle when your family has vastly different rules from your child’s friend’s families when you don’t want your child to feel left out? Screentime:What is a reasonable rule of thumb for how much screen time a child should be allowed by age?Wha