Setting Healthy Boundaries with Technology in Your Home with Arlene Pellicane

Most parents know screens are a problem. Few have a plan. In this practical and encouraging conversation, Josh sits down with Arlene Pellicane — speaker, author of Screen Kids, and host of the Happy Home podcast — to talk about what it actually looks like to raise children with healthy boundaries around technology. Arlene and her husband raised their three kids through high school without social media, video games, or smartphones. The fruit speaks for itself: kids who can focus, communicate with adults, solve problems, and walk with God without a device in hand.

Arlene breaks down the neuroscience of what screens do to the developing brain, explains the difference between casual use, at-risk behavior, and addiction, and offers a tiered family technology plan — from the Platinum Plan (delay everything through high school) to practical bronze-level wins any family can start this week. She also addresses the real-world questions parents face: How do your kids communicate with friends without a phone? What do you do when the device becomes a babysitter? And what happens when a child already seems addicted?

This episode is a gift to any parent who wants to be proactive — not reactive — about technology in the home. Come for the practical tools; stay for the vision of children shaped by the gospel rather than a screen.

 

Book 50 Things Every Child Needs to Know Before Leaving Home: https://bit.ly/50thingspc

Renewanation: https://bit.ly/rangsfpc 

Gospel Shaped Family Homepage: https://bit.ly/gsfhpc 

Happy Home Podcast: https://www.happyhomeuniversity.com/ 

Screen Kids Book: https://a.co/d/0hDpiIKi