There's a quiet conversation happening in almost every founder's home. The same hands that build companies are passing screens to small humans just to buy ten minutes of quiet. Underneath the guilt sits a bigger question about connection.

Kirsty Nolan has spent years in child development, trauma, and attachment work, and is the author of Rebooting Childhood. She joins Sana to talk about screens, connection, and what this work quietly teaches us about leadership too.

About the Guest:

Kirsty Nolan is a Community Impact and Training Specialist at Chaddock, with years in child development, trauma, and attachment work. She is the author of Rebooting Childhood and a mom navigating the very things she writes about.

Key Takeaways:

You lead in your household too; the skills you use at work matter just as much at home.
Children need both structure and nurture, held in balance, not one without the other.
Taking screens away rarely solves the deeper need; connection and transition time do more.
In Kirsty's view, screens are rewiring kids' brains, so abrupt removal can trigger real meltdowns.
Connect before you disconnect: a short, eye-to-eye check-in before screen time changes everything.

Connect With the Guest:

Book: Rebooting Childhood (Amazon and chaddockstore.org)

Organization: chaddock.org

Episode Chapters: (approx.)

[00:00] The quiet conversation in every founder's home

[01:00] Meet Kirsty Nolan and Rebooting Childhood

[04:30] From treatment model to the kitchen table: where the book began

[11:15] Structure and nurture: the balance kids actually need

[14:15] What we get wrong about screens, and why connection comes first

[19:20] Emotional safety, and where kids go when it's missing

[24:40] Connection on a tired evening, and one small shift to start

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