Devorah Heitner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 128b: Digital Media and Technology Expert Devorah Heitner on Helping Kids Be Screenwise · 3 Oct 2025 podcast

And so being really clear with kids about what the what the big issues in in life are and how maybe they should come to you first and not Alexa or Google.

Absolutely.

Sc screen time is in some ways an obsolete term.

I mean I think we all still are using it, but I would love to get people beyond it.

Because it doesn't it's not really descriptive.

If I use Google, the Google lady tells me how to get somewhere and then I use the Mark Bittman app to cook my dinner, you know, have I used up all my screen time and now I can't watch on Netflix?

I mean, is that even a useful way to think about how I use technology to get me through the day?

Right, so I really like Howard Gardner's term app enabled versus app dependent, and I think we all

want to raise kids who sometimes are enabled by apps.

And you know, whether it's my kid making a Lego animation or another kid using speech to text.

Or, you know, kids who are coding and creating things and absolutely

Active and creative use is is different than passive use.

They're both good, right?

When when we're passively reading a book, in some sense that's passive use of technology, right?

We're just taking it in.

We want our kids to read.

Um, but we also want them to create and write and and film and code and

And to take the interests that they're supporting on YouTube like Minecraft and cooking into real life, whereas, you know, where maybe they then actually play the game or mentor other kids about how to play the game or maybe if your kid is obsessed with cooking shows then they're actually gonna learn to cook something.

I mean we want

our kids also to be able to navigate in the world and ultimately survive on their own.

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