Tired of fighting with your kids about screen time?
Rebuild your relationship with tech — so your family can reconnect with what matters most.
I'm Chris — dad of four, a global leader in technology, and the last generation to grow up offline. I help parents rebuild connection at home using the H.E.A.L. Method™, a framework I've used with hundreds of families — including my own.
Does this sound familiar?
You swear you’ll be present — but you find yourself scrolling again.
You set aside time to connect, determined to give your child your full focus. Then a notification pings – you glance “just for a second,” and that resolve melts away. By the time you look up, they’ve given up trying to compete with your screen.
You enforce their screen limits — but let yourself off the hook.
You lay down the law for your kids – no phones at dinner, no YouTube after school. Yet there you are, checking emails at the table or scrolling at night. They notice the double standard (attempts at “do as I say, not as I do” tend to backfire), and your once-firm rules start to lose their power.
You ban, block, and supervise — yet still lie awake worrying about what you missed.
You've installed every filter. Banned the trending apps. Held off on giving them a phone as long as you could. But every week there's a new platform, a new loophole, a new thing you didn't see coming. It's digital whack-a-mole. And the tighter you lock things down, the more you wonder: when your guard isn't there, what will they get into?
The more you forbid,
the more they crave.
Week-long detoxes. Month-long bans after a blowup. It works at first — the house gets quiet, and you think maybe this time it'll stick. But the second the ban lifts, they dive back in twice as hard. And suddenly you're right back where you started.
Each ‘new screen plan’ works for a week — until life happens.
You map out screen-time schedules. Pin color-coded rules to the fridge. Everyone's motivated. For about three days. Then work gets crazy, or someone gets sick, or you're just too exhausted to enforce it. The plan quietly falls apart and you're left wondering why nothing ever truly sticks.
When you say no, your partner says yes.
You set a firm limit — no games after dinner. Then you find out your partner let them play "just one more level" to avoid a meltdown. Or maybe you're the lenient one, and they're the enforcer, and now you both feel undermined. The mixed messages are obvious. Your kid's learned to work one parent against the other. And underneath it all, you're both quietly resentful, feeling like the other one's sabotaging the plan.
None of this makes you a bad parent. It makes you a modern one.
You're raising kids in a world no generation has ever had to navigate — a world of infinite notifications, shrinking attention spans, and digital pressures no parenting book ever prepared you for. And here's the truth most parents don't realize:
The real problem isn't how much screen time your kids get.
It's what they're not paying attention to while on devices. The boredom that used to spark creativity & imagination. The family time together that used to build connection. The moments of nothingness where kids used to figure out who they were and what they cared about.
Those moments don't exist anymore. Screens filled the gap before your kids even knew there was one. So most parents do what makes sense: they try to control the screen.
More rules. Stricter limits. Tighter monitoring. But here's what I learned the hard way — and what hundreds of families I've worked with have learned too:
You can't restrict your way to connection.
Limits matter. Boundaries matter. But if all you're doing is taking screens away, you're just creating a void your kids don't know how to fill. And the second your guard drops, they dive right back in.
So what actually works?
Building something better than what screens offer. A family culture so strong, so grounded, so alive that your kids start choosing real life over the glow of a screen. That's what we're here to help you build.
The H.E.A.L. Method
Not more rules. Not total restriction.
Just a simple framework for building a family culture your kids actually want to choose.
Most digital wellness advice focuses on what to take away—apps to delete, time limits to set, rules to enforce. The H.E.A.L. Method focuses on what to build. Because when your family has something better than what screens offer, limits stop being a battle.
Real families. Real habits. Real change.
I’m Chris.
Founder of Wildly x Well.
When I first noticed my kids glued to their screens, I did what most parents do — I set limits. Timers. Rules. Boundaries.
But limits turned me into the screen police. Every day became a negotiation over minutes. I was monitoring, correcting, reminding. And instead of bringing us closer, it pulled us into a constant power struggle.
Then I realized something I wish I had seen sooner:
I was trying to control the screen instead of strengthening the connection.
So I stopped focusing on what to restrict and started focusing on what to rebuild. Little shifts — phone-free mornings, simple family rhythms, spaces where we could actually see each other again.
Those experiments became the H.E.A.L. Method — the framework that has helped 100+ families trade digital overwhelm for connection, rhythm, and room to be human again.
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