Emily Cherkin

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Today we are joined by Emily Cherkin, who is leading the fight for a tech-intentional childhood and education.

She's a former middle school teacher, author of The Screen Time Solution, a speaker, consultant, and associate professor of public policy at the University of Washington.

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name is Emily Cherkin.

I'm known as the Screen Time Consultant and I write at First Fish Chronicles on Substack and I have a book about parenting in the digital age.

I got into this work primarily because I was a teacher first.

I'm here to train people who sit at the table and teach you how to follow the law, ask the right questions and protect the rights of students.

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We're not just talking about change.

All these different parents that I was interacting with, they were spending thousands of dollars on various therapies and counseling and all these different things, thousands of dollars, thousands of hours, and nothing really was making these skills stick.

It wasn't making these kids more employable.

It wasn't helping them make more friends.

It wasn't helping them go to college and be successful.

[upbeat music] Today on Parents Uncharted, we're asking a question that many parents might not realize they need to ask.

How much of the school day is their child actually spending on a screen? And is that technology helping them learn or quietly replacing the things that do? My guest today is Emily Cherkin, who holds a master's in education and is a former middle school teacher.

She is also a parent, speaker, and founder of the Screen Time Consultant.

On top of that, she's an author and a writer.