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

Right.

And so all of these things have to be taken into account.

Now, what that looks like in a family with, you know, one or more kids is complicated because I think a lot of people, you know, I speak at schools all the time and everyone's like, How many minutes?

Or, you know, what age for this?

Or I mean, people really want these concrete guidelines.

And we have to look at how it supports our kid.

I mean, for for my family, we live in Chicago, which has pretty horrendous weather weather in the winter.

And so we actually have more screen time as a family in the winter.

In the summer if my kid asks for a second show, I'll be like, Go outside you know.

If it's, you know, super freezing cold, I might say, Well, do something different with a screen or do something different in the house, like maybe

Make some videos, or maybe you want to do an interactive game, but maybe you can't watch another show if you've watched a show or two, right?

So we're trying to change it up.

So I I think that responding to the individual situation, responding to what's needed, reminding my kid is very

brain aware and very interested in how his brain works.

And so I've reminded I'll I can remind him, Hey, remember when you don't get exercise, you don't sleep as well or

You know, when you watch a couple of shows, it really detracts from your mood, remember?

And so

Logic doesn't always work and I'm not suggesting that parenting is some kind of democratic situation where my kid then makes the perfect decision 'cause I've reminded him about how his brain works.

But if you have a kid who's interested in that and wants to be at their optimal functioning, you can certainly

Try that strategy.

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