Screen Sanity Small Group
After a year of being apart, we are eager for any excuse to get together. To honor what we’ve lost. To connect with what matters now. To dream about what’s next. And a topic that everyone can agree upon? Finding a healthier screen-life balance. If you’re ready to lead, we’re ready to help.
ALL YOU NEED TO HOST A FRESH START GATHERING IS 2 HOURS, A CIRCLE OF PEOPLE, AND A HEART TO UNPACK THE CHALLENGES FAMILIES ARE FACING WITH SCREENTIME. HERE’S HOW IT WORKS.
WE PROVIDE:
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TIPS for gathering
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INVITATIONS that are easy to paste into social feeds and texts
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CONVERSATION CARDS
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ZOOM CHECK-INS with our START team and other START champions
YOU PROVIDE:
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THE SPACE for participants to gather and connect
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A willingness to ADDRESS the need, ASK questions with curiosity, LISTEN intently, and experience personal GROWTH.
Follow up opportunities
As a leader, you know best what your group needs next. START is here to provide you ongoing resources to share with participants who are struggling…or to plan a follow up gathering to discuss! These include
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Screen Sanity Podcast
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Smartphone Toolkit
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Social Media Playbook
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Parent Guide Library
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Parent training webinars
Did you know?
At START, we are not only hearing from teachers that social media and games invade the school-time hours that had acted as a buffer to screen time pre-COVID, but the data shows the effect. In July 2020, a report was released by Qustodio (a device-filtering company), revealing trends and insights on children’s screen-time habits during the pandemic, known as the “COVID Effect.” Since March 2020, the average child in the U.S. now watches nearly 100 minutes of YouTube per day, a child in the U.K. spends nearly 70 minutes on TikTok per day, a child in Spain plays Roblox over 90 minutes a day, and 100% more children everywhere are spending time learning online. These increases are not ever expected to return to pre-pandemic levels, but only increase as industries become more aggressive and competitive in their vy for children’s attention.
