313. Screen Time Battles? Help Your Tween Move Beyond Scrolling
You say, “Time to turn it off.”
Your tween says, “But there's nothing else to do.”
What happens next?
In this episode of The Single Parenting Reset Show, Tess Connolly, LCSW and Parent and Family Coach, welcomes Krystal Popov, founder of Futurepreneur and mother of three, for a conversation about screen time, creativity, and helping children find something they want to do beyond scrolling.
Krystal shares how she uses hands-on business projects to give children opportunities to create, communicate, and take ownership. Together, we explore a practical question: what does your child enjoy about being on a screen, and how could that interest translate into an offline activity?
In this conversation, we discuss:
- What to consider alongside the screen-time limit itself.
- How interests such as building, socializing, helping, and leading can suggest different activities.
- Krystal's DISC-inspired approach to thinking about children's preferences.
- Examples including greeting cards, a mini pizzeria, and neighborhood helping projects.
- Why explaining your reason for a limit matters to the conversation.
- Tess's story about her teenage son choosing the golf range for a study break.
- Krystal's emphasis on innovation, communication, and courage.
The practical starting point: get curious about what your child enjoys, then explore one manageable way to bring that interest into everyday life.
Krystal Popov is the founder of Futurepreneur, an entrepreneur, and a mother of three. Her work introduces children to entrepreneurship through hands-on projects that involve creating, planning, and launching a small business.
Krystal's business-program examples focus mainly on younger children and tweens. The conversation also includes Tess's perspective as the parent of an older teen.
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