Screen-Free Week loves reading, so this year we’re making it even easier to pick up a book (or an e-reader… we don’t judge), May 1-7. Reading rocks! Research shows children who read (or are read to) have better scores on…
Our 2023 Screen-Free Week Coordinator Jen Kane, recently sat down with three teenagers, ages 15-18, who have spent over a month screen-free during their summers to talk about that experience. The conversation is excerpted below. Jen: Can you tell me…
The urge had become completely Pavlovian. Whenever I stopped at a red light while driving, I’d check my phone for messages. Stop at a red light, check for messages; stop; check. It was ingrained, unsafe, and annoyingly compelling and unstoppable.…
As much as we’d love to think our role as parents is to protect our kids from screen time, chances are we might need some protecting, too! Even the most tech-savvy of us can be sucked into our devices, (SPOILER…
Jen Kane joins our team for 2023 Scree-Free Week from her home base in Minneapolis, MN.
Ms. Zalewski’s class celebrated Screen-Free Week in New York this year! All 43 students decreased their screen time dramatically, with 21 going completely screen-free. Amazing job, everyone! At the beginning of the week. Ms. Zalewski spoke to her students about…
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, over 100 kids in the “screen time ring” told us what it’s like to grow up in a tech-obsessed world…and what they want adults to know. Here, middle schoolers in a public school in Indiana…
We were so excited to hear about your amazing experiences during Screen-Free Week 2022! From Nicaragua to Scotland to San Diego, tens of thousands of people relished in the “joy of missing out” from May 2 – 8. After the…
Teachers are sometimes the first people to notice screen addictions in our kids, and we often get questions from schools about what Screen-Free Week looks like in a classroom setting. Luckily, it can be celebrated in so many different ways!…