Devices can calm our emotional children - but does a screen actually help them to emotionally regulate or is it just distracting them from their emotions in the heat of the moment? Are there long term consequences to letting screens "manage" a child's emotions?

We also talk about a controversial topic - using "screen-time" as a reward! There is an important connection between screen use and children's executive function and emotional regulation, and it's not good news!

In this episode:

• Your words have power:  @always.upper.elementary
• Toothpaste Words: The most important back to school lesson you can do
• Should we comment on someone's appearance?
• Cure for tantrums? Longitudinal associations between parental digital emotion regulation and children's self-regulatory skills
• Using devices as digital pacifiers
• Frustration tolerance
• Unplug Childhood: Join the village, sign the petition

• #1038 - Managing Emotional Dysregulation

• Tolerable discomfort

• Resilience

• Associations between media parenting practices and early adolescent screen use

• Social media

• Using screens as punishment or reward leads to higher screen use

• Alfie Kohn, author of 'Punished by Rewards'

• Positive/negative reinforcement
• The most important "app" for our children

Related links: 

• Unplugging Parenthood
• #137 Punishment & Rewards with Alfie Kohn

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