Co-parenting isn’t easy, but we reserve the right to refuse to service to parents in a high conflict divorce, little or no custody, or those with serious ongoing custody issues. Your stress is likely a major contributing factor to your child coping with harmful screen time and until you are in a place of calm and cooperation, we will not offer (or continue to offer) our services and insert ourselves in the middle of chaos. Allegations of ongoing abuse by the other parent or other harmful acts need to be addressed with professional therapy and legal process.

It’s okay if you and your co-parent disagree about the impact screens are having on your child, that’s why a digital detox will show exactly what behaviors and ailments are actually being impacted by screens and what are genetic or other external factors. However, the primary parent guiding the digital detox should have at least 50% custody and the co-parent should be willing to support the process, encourage the child, and not undermine screen limiting efforts for best results!  We are happy to work with both parents and other caregivers during the 60 day reset to keep everyone on the same page and making progress as long as they are cooperative or “going with the flow” of the primary parent facilitating the digital detox.

It has never been a more difficult time to be a parent than it is today. We KNOW parents have a lot of financial and personal stress in addition to worrying abou their child. However, we are NOT a substitute for therapy and you can not help your child until you are calm and healed. Stress is VERY catching! Kids are like a sponge and catch toxic stress easily from very well-intentioned parents and internalize it in ways that deeply impact their long term mental health. Parent stress is often the MAIN reasons for kids to engage in unhealthy screen use and develop poor coping skills and behavior outbursts. If you have an unusually high amount of stress and can not approach a digital detox methodically and calmly, we will not be able to offer you guidance and recommend therapy and parent coaching before or concurrently while starting a digital detox. Most parents help their kids undergo a digital detox AFTER a time of personal stress, sickness, or trauma has past.

During your initial consult you will be asked about other external factors that could potentially impede the ability for parents to lead a successful 30 day digital detox or modified detox.  Any external stress or material factors should be disclosed and discussed at the time of your consultation or your TechXpress™ Facilitator reserves the right to suspend coaching until external factors are resolved, parents are calm, and children are safe. This may include custody orders, parent illness, death in the family, etc.