Month: February 2022

Session 4 – Homework & Reading

  1. Read Positive Discipline for Teenagers Chp. 4

2. Notice your lid flipping and Practice 4R’s of Recovery from Mistakes – its all about practice, not perfection. Use the process shared today to model and practice making things right with your kids when you lose it.Start your

3. Family Meeting routine – Work with your family to come up with a time during the week that everyone can gather together for family meetings.  During your family meeting, focus only on compliments or appreciations of one another.

4. Follow the journal prompt in the Homework Session 4 page to deepen your experience.

Media Balance – Family Activity

Do a media balance check up on the whole family!

This is one of my favorite family activities to do in the ongoing quest to maintain healthy media balance.

The activity (adapted from www.commonsensemedia.org) benefits the whole family. Parents and children work together to answer questions about their media use, and then decide if they want to make some changes.

Introduce the activity when everyone is calm and there are no time constraints. Use the following script to start the discussion:

We balance the food we eat to stay healthy. We also need to balance our media use. Media includes the shows and videos we watch, the video games and apps we play, and the music we listen to. It’s important for all of us, Mommy and Papi too, to stay aware of how our time “on-screens” fits into our lives.

Continue by answering the following questions found in the activity doc: Media Balance & Wellness – Family Activity

Family Media Plan

To start your personalized Family Media Plan, check out this resource created by healthychildren.org and endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. When creating your plan, work with your children to come up with an agreement that is Related, Respectful, Reasonable and Helpful for everyone. The link below will take you directly to the family media plan page. On this page you will also find a Media Time Calculator, which can be a great tool for deciding upon a reasonable amount of screen time for each family member.

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/media/Pages/default.aspx

How to Set Healthy Screen Time Limits

Keeping kids safe online and setting healthy screen time limits can be a daily struggle. Start with the following guidelines to help you determine your “non negotiables”. Then, work with your family to come up with agreements that are Reasonable, Respectful and Related.