Dr Rosina is interviewed by Nick Rheinberger on ABC Illawarra about the challenges for parents and the guidelines for screen time.

Screen time

This podcast explores the impact of device usage on children and the importance of fostering a balanced approach to screen time. Reflecting on personal experiences and backed by research, it delves into practical strategies for managing screen habits, distinguishing between recreational and purposeful use, and setting healthy boundaries. Offering actionable tips to encourage intentionality, creativity, and self-regulation, empowering parents to guide their children toward healthier relationships with technology.

EP2: Balancing screen time for your child

"2:45" explores late-night social media anxiety and FOMO through the lens of Gen Z experience. Through specific details like screen time reports and blue light glasses, it captures the universal feeling of watching others' curated lives through screens. The production supports the story's arc from digital anxiety to self-acceptance, while the hook "Scrolling through my feeds at 2:45" speaks to anyone who's found themselves doom-scrolling through social media in the early hours.

2:45

"Screen Time" by The Kevin Bennett is a clever and relatable rap track that explores the modern-day obsession with technology and digital devices. With sharp lyricism, smooth flows, and a catchy beat, the song dives into the highs and lows of being glued to screens, from social media scrolling to gaming and streaming. The Kevin Bennett blends humor and insight, creating a track that captures the reality of living in a tech-driven world while encouraging listeners to reflect on their relationship with their screens. "Screen Time" is both an anthem for the digitally connected and a reminder to unplug.

SCREEN TIME | THE KEVIN BENNETT

The term "brain rot" dates back to Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden, but in the digital age, it has become Oxford University Press’ 2024 Word of the Year. With people averaging nearly seven hours of screen time per day, brain rot is defined by the publication as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging, with a particular emphasis on online content and social media.
 
Usage of the term increased by 230% between 2023 and 2024, and Eric Schumacher, professor of psychology specializing in the study of cognitive control, talks about how brain rot is spreading and how to stem the tide.

Generating Buzz: Understanding 'Brain Rot'

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Q&A episode — so this one is extra stacked!

You sent in your questions about motherhood, business, routines, screen time, nutrition, boundaries, and so much more… and I’m here to answer them all — no holds barred, complete transparency, from my heart to yours.

Tune in as I pull back the curtains on: how we’ve navigated four years without screen time for my daughter (along with no dairy, gluten or sugar), how I transition between work and mum life, our plan for Bambi’s education, the newborn essentials I swear by, my thoughts on playdates, boundaries, potty training, how we navigate eating in social settings, and what really happens when I feel like I’m failing at both motherhood and business — it’s all in here.

Whether you're a new mama, a soon-to-be mama, or deep in the sacred trenches of running a business and caring for others, this episode is full of practical tips, honest reflections, and a behind-the-scenes look at how we really do things in our home.

Press play now for an honest, unfiltered chat about what’s working, what we’re still figuring out, and everything I’ve learned along the way.

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654: Why Are We Raising Our Kids With No Screens, Sugar Or Dairy? & The A’s To All Your Q’s

Based on the 2011 hit by Gotye, "Somebody That I Used To Know". I've used the same lyrical structure and timing, but re-written the lyrics and set them to a Latin beat which seemed to fit so well...

Every day I wake to blue-white buzzing weather,
Little pings that taste like sugar to my mind;
Told myself it’s only “staying close together,”
Yet I feel hollow keeping windows open wide;
All this frictionless stuff steals the space I meant to treasure.

After lunch I slip into another rabbit,
Finger learns the loop and never wants to stop;
Swore I’d only check a single harmless topic,
Blink another hour, there it goes, ker-plop;
It’s a hall of mirrors feeding back a glowing habit.

But I didn’t have to check it all,
Act like every tiny notice is a sacred summons;
And I don’t even want that pull,
But it leads me like a puppy on a velvet rope;
No, I shouldn’t let the minutes go,
Watch my plans dissolve to banners and a thousand pop-ups;
I guess I don’t need any more
Now it’s just a timeline that I used to scroll.

Every thought I chase gets dressed in neon headlines,
Promises of wisdom waiting past the fold;
Tell myself I learn from every clickbait headline,
But the lesson’s mostly “how to lose control;”
Every “just one more” becomes a chain of little bylines.

You say I’m why your calendar keeps stalling,
But you built the door and walked inside to stay;
Blamed me when your quiet felt too sprawling,
Used my noise to hide within a crowd all day;
If you needed room, you could have set your phone to silent
Don’t pretend I crept in, stole your time away.

No, we didn’t have to chase it all,
Treat a flicker like a lifeline or a rare fulfillment;
And we don’t even want that pull,
Let it hum without a handle on our daily ritual;
No, we shouldn’t let the minutes go,
Trade our dreams for little circles filling up with motion;
Guess we don’t need any more
Now it’s just a timeline that we used to scroll.

A timeline that I used to scroll…
A timeline I don’t need to scroll.

A timeline that I used to scroll

The Essential Self-Help Guide to Your Children Thriving in a Digital Age from Clinical Psychologist and Bestselling Author Dr Martha Deiros Collado 

 ‘The book us parents urgently need’ Dr Julie Smith

The smartphone dilemma: it’s on every parent’s mind. When should I let my child have a phone? What are the risks and how can I protect them? How can I encourage and nurture healthy digital habits? In The Smartphone Solution, highly respected child-and-family clinical psychologist Dr Martha Deiros Collado provides the answers so you can:

• determine the right age to give your child a phone
• answer the questions they may have and turn these conversations into moments that build connection
• distinguish the real risks and benefits of smartphones from the misinformation
• teach yourself and older siblings to model healthy phone habits
• navigate online safety, digital footprints, consent and family tech boundaries
• sign the Family Phone Pledge and build a supportive community with like-minded parents.

Written with Dr Martha’s characteristic warmth and empathy, The Smartphone Solution will provide the information and tools you need to support your child and allow them to thrive in the modern digital world.

The Smartphone Solution: When and how to give your child a phone, By Dr Martha Deiros Collado, Read by Dr Martha Deiros Collado

In this week’s Cultivate Calmness Podcast, holistic grief and trauma therapist Kaela Vance, LPCC-S, addresses a heartbreaking story that shook her community — the loss of a child to a viral social-media “challenge.” Kaela explores the darker side of technology and how digital platforms, algorithms, and online predators can endanger our kids’ safety and mental health. She offers practical, compassionate guidance for parents and caregivers: how to create tech agreements, monitor online use, and open healthy conversations about trust, privacy, and boundaries. This episode is both a sobering wake-up call and an empowering reminder that proactive, mindful parenting can make all the difference in a digital world designed for distraction.

Episode #106 - Digital Dangers: Keeping Kids Safe on Social Media

A song calling out all the people who when they go to festivals, or raves are always JUST on their phones. They're not enjoying the moment, they're enjoying the screen. 

Stop that. Live for the moment, because you are there only once. 

LYRICS: 
Lights flash, bodies froze,
Every screen’s got a different glow.
You came for the drop, not the scroll,
But you’re filming life instead of letting it go.

Feed full, soul’s half-charged,
You’re missing out on the moment, hard.
You got likes, I got sound,
Let’s see who’s really in the crowd.

You’re lookin’ down when the beat’s goin’ up,
You’re tappin’ hearts when the bass blows up.
I don’t need your stories or your frame —
I need sweat, sound, and your name.

Put the phone away,
Let your body play.
We don’t come to stand still,
We came to lose our way.
Put the phone away,
Feel the floor decay.
If you ain’t movin’, what you stayin’ for?
This is what the drop’s made for.

Move. Jump. Lose control.
Put. The. Phone. Away.
Move. Jump. Lose control.
This is what the drop’s made for.

Flashlight crowd, yeah, blinding the scene,
Caught in your lens but missing the dream.
You can’t rewind what you don’t feel,
So break that screen and make it real.

No feed can feed what this bass does,
No post can post what this love was.
You got one shot, no replay,
So put that screen down, baby —

Put the phone away,
Let your body play.
We don’t come to stand still,
We came to lose our way.
Put the phone away,
Feel the floor decay.
If you ain’t movin’, what you stayin’ for?
This is what the drop’s made for.

Stop recording — start becoming.
Stop posing — start running.
It’s not about the view count, babe,
It’s about the breakdown rave.

Put the phone away.
Put the phone away.
If you ain’t movin’, you’re in the way.
This is what the drop’s made for.

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Kevin Bennett (born in Buffalo, NY - November 14, 1993) is an American Music Artist and Professional Wrestler.

Welcome to the "Cultivate Calmness" channel, presented by Kaela Rae Vance LPCCS. Kaela is one of Central Ohio's few Holistic Clinical Counselors who specializes in advanced counseling techniques, real world strategies, & guidance around complex grief and trauma issues.

Music takes me to new worlds. Life is the best teacher. Writing about life is a challenge and experience is what guides me. Loves, pains, disappointments, sadness, joy, despair, hope, melancholy, happiness, all these feelings burn in my veins and make me create.
You all welcome to follow my journey.

Publishers of award-winning fiction and non-fiction audiobooks for adults and children. Listen to exclusive clips from our books and free audioook extracts here on Soundcloud.

https://MelissaAmbrosini.com/podcast ... Named a “Self-Help Guru” by Elle Magazine, Melissa Ambrosini stands as the co-founder of SheLaunch, a visionary company dedicated to empowering women to achieve their financial and impact goals. 

She boasts a prolific career as a bestselling author, with titles such as Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, Comparisonitis, Time Magic and the Audible Original PurposeFULL. Her outstanding contributions have earned her accolades, including 'The Best eBooks Of All Time' by Book Depository and the winner of the 'Book Of The Year,' 'Best Business Book,' and 'Best Personal Development Book' of the year for Time Magic.

Melissa is also the host of #1 rated podcast The Melissa Ambrosini Show, where she shares her wisdom and interviews with the biggest thought leaders, celebrities, doctors and experts in the world to help her audience unlock their full potential and live their dream life. 

With a deep commitment to empowering others in all areas of their lives, Melissa believes that awakening is possible for everyone. She strives to inspire others to reclaim their power, bust through fear, step into their truth, live with intention, and move in the direction of their dreams.

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One hot summer’s day in the early 1980s, a troubled young schoolkid was being supervised alone in the music room for some forgotten misdemeanor. He spent the period playing a drum kit for the first time in his life, and when he was ready to go, the student teacher who had been supervising signed off his report card with the fateful words: “excellent drummer!”

Throughout the ’90s and ’00s, I played drums in “happy-clappy” churches up and down the country, as well as in college, where I toured with a band named Kurios. I’ve always had music in me. I never properly learned to play a “real” instrument — but why would an undiagnosed autistic kid with ADD want to pluck strings or blow through reeds when he can just hit things?!

These days, as I’m getting older (55) and increasingly disabled (I can no longer manage a full drum kit), I’ve finally found ways to get the music out of my head and into yours through the wonders of technology. I record everything in my home studio using a humble Arturia Minilab 3, a PC running Reaper, and a whole range of tools and plugins.

Now, on the use of AI, let me be absolutely clear:

I do not support the swamping of streaming platforms with “AI slop.” However, as an IT professional with fairly extensive knowledge and experience of AI, I also do not support the indiscriminate dismissal and castigation of any and all use of AI in music production — or any of the arts, for that matter. And as a drummer, I suppose I got over it years ago, back when we were being replaced in studios by computers from the late ’80s onward..!

For me, AI is just another tool in the artist’s toolbox — one that helps me massively shorten and simplify my workflows, and one that’s helped to elevate my craft to something much closer to professionally produced work. I don’t sing (very well), but with AI tools such as Ace Studio, Audime, or Suno Studio, I can turn my own voice — or even simple musical notation — into just about any vocal I can imagine.

I don’t play guitar (at all — I’ve got tiny sausage fingers), but with AI I can turn any melody hammered out on my MIDI controller into a lead guitar, bass riff, or just about any other instrument. I’m a musician, but I’m also an engineer, and I hope those skills — along with my hard work and passion — come through in my music and set it apart from the AI slop which is becoming so prevalent . 🙏🙏🙏 (And yes, I did have ChatGPT proof read this Bio, which is why it's full of em-dash symbols 😅)

As for the lyrics in my songs — the stories they tell — those are all me. They come from my life experiences, and from the obsessive scribbling of the angsty autistic teenager who still lives in my head and believes his poetry is so deeply profound. 😅

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