TPP 012a: A Conversation with 11-year-old Asher About Managing & Tracking Screen Time
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What challenges are families facing with screen time and why does it matter?
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Hey there, it's Debbie. Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around. You are someone who likes to have the when the alarm goes off it ki hits you as a surprise, but that's better than looking at it and seeing, Oh crap, I only have four minutes left.
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Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reaver, and today's episode features another short conversation with my 11-year-old son Asher. Today, we're devoting our whole conversation to a subject near and dear to pretty much every family's life these days: screen time. Like most of you listening, we have been trying to figure out how to best balance, manage, and negotiate Asher's engagement with all things screen so that it doesn't negatively impact our family and so that it doesn't take over his life. And before we get started, to be clear, we're not here to say that our way is the right way.
Way or that we have all the answers when it comes to exactly how much screen time is the right amount. But because the issue of screen time has been a source of significant stress and discussion in our family over the years, and I know I'm not alone here. We thought it might be useful to share some of our strategies for making Asher's relationship with the computer and iPad more workable for our family. I hope you enjoyed this episode and don't forget to check out the show notes as well, because we're going to share our new and improved screen time planning worksheet as a downloadable. To learn more about this podcast in Tilt, the Revolution for Parents Raising Atypical Kids, visit www.tiltparenting.com.
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How did Asher and Debbie first create the bubble‑timer screen‑time worksheet?
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Maybe a month or so ago, Asher, we were using a new screen time planning worksheet. Yep. And it
was new back then.
It was new back then. And as we explained on a previous podcast, we were using the bubble system, which I'm kind of borrowing from the Pomodoro method, which is in this productivity planner that I use.
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I noticed that the screen time planning worksheet was starting to be less effective. Do you remember what that why that was the case? That
was because I sort I got bored. I didn't I didn't really reflect on on what I was going to do with my time. Sometimes that works. Like for example, I was playing a game called Kerbal Space Program, and I was in the middle of sending something to the moon and then my timer went off and and I immediately did everything to get ready as fast as I could and quickly reset the timer and jump back on to make sure I hadn't missed my maneuver note.
So just for reference, in a previous episode of this podcast, the one about distraction, Asher and I talked about the screen time planning worksheet he was using at that time, the one we're talking about here.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What challenges are families facing with screen time and why does it matter?
0:00–2:48
2
How did Asher and Debbie first create the bubble‑timer screen‑time worksheet?
2:48–5:05
3
Why did the original worksheet start losing its effectiveness?
5:05–6:54
4
What new steps did they add to the screen‑time planner to improve transitions?
6:54–8:31
5
How does the updated planner help Asher reflect before jumping back to the screen?
8:31–10:16
6
Why does Asher find the visual timer stressful and what alternatives did they discuss?
10:16–11:40
7
How are breathing, movement breaks, and pause rituals building healthier screen habits?
11:40–13:44
8
What final advice do Asher and Debbie give to parents struggling with screen‑time management?
13:44–15:18
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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