Ep. 172: Screen-Free Week with Jean Rogers

<p><strong><a href="http://sunshine-parenting.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit Sunshine Parenting for more resources & episodes.</a></strong></p> <p>In this episode, Jean Rogers, Director of the <a href= "https://screentimenetwork.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Children's Screen Time Action Network</a>, and I talk about children's well-being, ways to maximize your family's screen-free time together, and fun resources for celebrating Screen-Free Week.</p> <p>Jean and I talked about <em>The Social Dilemma</em> (documentary) in Ep. 159 of the podcast. <a href= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/ep-159-the-social-dilemma-jean-rogers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You can listen to that episode here.</a></p> <p><a href= "https://commercialfreechildhood.org/happy-campers-blog/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">I joined Jean and Lenore Skenazy on an Action Network Live webinar "Let them make pancakes: Helping kids flourish during a camp-less, COVID-19 summer."</a></p> <h2><span style="color: #1176bc">About Jean Rogers</span></h2> <p>Jean Rogers is the Director of the Children’s Screen Time Action Network, where she leads a coalition of practitioners, educators, advocates, and parents who collaborate on practical methods to reduce children’s time on screens and digital devices, mitigate the dangers, and preserve childhood in the digital age. Jean is the host of Action Network Live!, a webcast bringing experts to parents on how screens impact all aspects of child development. She writes a weekly blog and speaks widely to parents, teachers and activists, empowering them to implement simple solutions to a complex 21st century parenting challenge.</p> <p>Jean earned Masters’ degrees in Education and Parenting Education at Wheelock College, where she took up the mantel of Susan Linn and Diane Levin, trailblazers in media literacy, play-based learning, and avoiding a commercialized childhood. Prior to working at the Action Network, Jean was a freelance marketing writer, illuminating products and services for nonp