Save the date! Screen-Free Week 2021
At CCFC, our favorite time of the year is Screen-Free Week! In a typical January, we would begin our annual process of supporting celebrants all over the globe – in schools, in neighborhoods, in whole cities and countries – who join us for an entire week of unplugging...
Resolve to Unplug
Making resolutions for the new year can feel a little different this year, but there’s one choice we can all make to give ourselves and our families a boost in the new year. We can look critically at our tech use for 2021 and make plans to fill up our time with...
Unplug to Groove: A Screen-Free Saturdays Guide
The days are getting shorter, the blankets are looking cozier, and our bodies are feeling slower. Now is a great time to shake off the sleepiness, turn up the tunes, and get groovin’. This month, we’ve compiled a few different musical opportunities for your families...
Unplug to Get Cozy: A Screen-Free Saturdays Guide
When I was a kid, my little brother and I used to wait at the door for any packages delivered to my dad. As a sales rep, sometimes Dad would get samples of products ranging from mugs to stuffed animals to (our favorite) candy. But usually, it wasn’t what was inside...
Unplug to Discover: A Screen-Free Saturdays Guide
How is it possible that it is October? I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready for much these days, especially not cold weather. But, what I love about Autumn wherever I am, is that it invites us to notice change. Both adults and kids tune into the seasonal shift no...
Unplug to LookUp: A Screen-Free Saturdays Guide
In moments like this, it can be especially hard to unplug. Over the last three weeks, we’ve witnessed a historic movement for Black lives, all against the backdrop of a global pandemic. Staying informed is essential - but it’s also important to create space to reflect...
Unplug to Help: A Screen-Free Saturdays Guide
There are many ways we can organize to support one another via technology, but for young children, they need hands-on, concrete ways to help. Whether it’s chores around the house, making masks, or helping to deliver groceries for immunocompromised neighbors,...
Unplug for Back To School
It’s back to school season, which for many of us means that we are establishing routines and getting back into the groove of getting the kids ready for school each morning. Yet, going back to school looks different this year. Almost all schools have screen-based...
Inspiring Youth: One Teen’s Solution to Screen Time Helps Peers and Elementary Schoolers
In this guest blog, high school student, Haydn Wolfers, shares her experience with her own digital wellness and how she’s spread knowledge about tech use to not only her peers, but also elementary schoolers who are just beginning to develop their digital health...
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