Smartphone Toolkit Before you introduce your child’s first phone, download our Smartphone Toolkit to help prepare yourself and your child —...
Parent Guides Visit our Parent Guide Library for informative downloads on today’s trending tech topics, including everything from TikTok and Snapchat...
Parent Guide: Sexting A guide to protecting your children from sexting, which is a combination of the words “sex” and “texting."
Social Media Playbook This is a parent-child workbook for starting powerful conversations about social media. Families are prompted to dig deeper into...
Screen Sanity Workshop Our hallmark product, this interactive handbook is broken down into six video-guided sessions (plus four bonus chapters!) that are...
Which first smartphone is best for your child? It’s that time of year when the weather is changing, holiday decor is appearing on the shelves and gift-giving...
3 Questions to Ask Before Getting your Child a Smartphone With today’s smartphones, kids have the world at their fingertips, but they also have the weight of the world...
Sharing Tech Boundaries with Family + Friends We know that change is best implemented in community. Without the support of even just one or two people...
How to Host a Device-Free Gathering Summer is here! This season feels like a natural invitation to gather, whether that be around a sprinkler...
5 Ways for Coaches to Combat the Screentime Struggle The positive effects of participating in youth sports are numbered, yet there is a distracting new teammate causing...
Top 10 Digital Parenting Trends of 2021 From viral TikTok challenges to the controversial launch of Metaverse, 2021 was filled with big changes in the...
Back to School with Devices in Hand Recently, one of our START parents contacted us to seek advice on how to handle school-issued devices in...
Driving & Technology When your kids know they have you by their side and can come to you no matter the...
Red Rover, Red Rover: Smartphones & Sleepovers When we establish device-free zones, we develop lifelong habits that foster our kids’ mental health. And when the...
Social Media Prep for Preschoolers When Cierra Karson found her preschool daughter saying her daily affirmations in the mirror, it made her cry happy...
Driver’s Ed Approach to Messenger Kids START recently partnered with the Wall Street Journal to share thoughts about a hot app for kids: Facebook’s Messenger...
Smartphone Under the Tree? When it comes to setting boundaries with new devices, it is much easier to start with strong limits...
Ride, Practice, Drive: Training Kids for Social Media + Smartphones At START, we want to help parents take a “driver’s ed” approach when helping kids learn to drive...
Screen Sanity Episode 13: Heath Wilson and Joey Odom Heath Wilson and Joey Odom, creators of The Aro, join Krista Boan for a conversation about their search for...
Screen Sanity Episode 12: Felicia Wu Song, Ph.D. Felicia Wu Song is a sociologist at Westmont College who studies the way technology has changed contemporary life....
Screen Sanity Episode 11: Chris McKenna Join Krista Boan as she talks with the founder of Protect Young Eyes, Chris McKenna. It’s a topic many...
Screen Sanity Episode 10: Krista Boan and Adam Reck In this conversation, Adam and Krista reflect on the "smartphone plunge"—that moment when your kids graduate from a limited...
Screen Sanity Episode 9: Max Stossel Max Stossel is the Youth + Education Advisor for The Center for Humane Technology—the organization behind Netflix’s...
Screen Sanity Episode 8: Angie Daniels Angie Daniels is the Program Manager for The Hope Center on the east side of...
Screen Sanity Episode 7: Rob and Zareen Cope Filmmakers Rob and Zareen Cope are a couple of New Zealander parents who spent a year talking to...
Screen Sanity Episode 6: Brady Smith For Actor/Artist/Author Brady Smith, raising kids in Hollywood is about more than just the big screen; it’s about...
Screen Sanity Episode 5: Amanda Mozea Amanda Mozea is the Education Outreach Manager at Media Girls, where she and her team work to help...
