71: Krista Boan | Tips for Parents in the Digital Age

Krista, the co-founder of We Start Now chat about building an internal framework within your child when it comes to values and digital habits. Krista also shares a variety of tips to help parents and families flourish in the digital age.

1:57 Take a moment to introduce our listeners to you, your family, and tell us a little about We START Now

A couple of years ago, my oldest daughter was in fifth grade. At that time, the hot Christmas gift was a smartphone and I knew that our family was not ready for a smartphone....I really became concerned about that and started reaching out asking if anybody else wanted to talk about it. What happened was it became a conversation ironically, of a close tiny group of people who started talking about this issue and it grew to 3000 people almost overnight. People who really were talking about what does it look like to give our kids smartphone. How do we get them ready for that? What age is the right age?"

START. It's an acronym that stands for sit together and rethink technology. 

5:16 What are some of the key take aways that you applied as your family began to re-think technology?

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"I think that there is a very hopeful, promising movement of the next generation of parents who are beginning to say, we want to do it different and it's gonna look a little bit more incremental."

6:40 I read a study recently that the average U.S. household has eleven connected devices with seven of those, including screens to view content.  What are some first steps and things that we can do to really begin to rethink technology? 

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