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Screens threaten our kids’ well-being.
The Legislature is fighting back
Opinion for The Sacramento Bee
By Julie Furmin | August 1, 2025 6:00 AMAs a licensed marriage and family therapist, I’ve spent over a decade helping teens and tweens navigate all the pressures of their lives. Increasingly, one issue dominates my conversations with young people: the toxic digital world they’re growing up in.
Opinion for The Ridgefield Press
By Emily Bauer, Julie Furmin | December 4, 2025Like many, our families moved to districts celebrated for their highly rated schools, albeit on opposite coasts of the country. What we found was an abundance of technology in classrooms where screens “replaced” lessons that could be taught with paper, books, and conversation. Our paths crossed when pursuing the questions: when did teaching about computers become teaching everything through a computer?
Chromebooks lie out after being cleaned in preparation for the Sept. 8 start of school at Newfield Elementary School in Stamford in 2020 John Moore/Getty Images
The AI in your child’s backpack
Opinion for The Ventura County Star
By Julie Furmin | January 6 2026As a therapist and a parent, I’ve watched with unease as a growing number of apps now promise “therapy” or “companionship” through artificial intelligence. They offer to listen without judgment, to respond instantly, to be available 24/7. For someone who feels lonely, anxious, or unseen, that can sound like salvation. But AI doesn’t understand us. It mirrors us, and it risks deepening the very isolation it claims to ease. What keeps me up at night is that this technology is now on children’s school-issued Chromebooks and iPads.
“Quoted“ in Tech Policy.Press
State Mandated Social Media Warning Labels Open New Front in Battle Against Tech Companies
By Gopal Ratnam | January 27, 2025 READ THE ARTICLE“I think a warning label is really important from a public health perspective because many individuals are just now coming into contact with the research showing that there’s a strong link between mental health problems and social media use.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation to combat addictive social media feeds and protect kids at UFT Headquarters in New York on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Lev Radin/Sipa USA via AP Images)
"AI or Opt-Out"
How One Mom Took Her Kids Off School Chromebooks
Scrolling 2 Death | January 5, 2026What happens when a school-issued Chromebook starts talking to your child—without permission?
Mothers Against Media Addiction
Calm Mama Coaching | July 9, 2025Julie Scelfo and Julie Frumin join Darlynn Childress on Episode 181 of the “Become a Calm Mama” podcast.
Is the digital world too much for kids?
Your Child is Normal | February 6, 2025In this episode of Your Child Is Normal, Dr. Jessica Hochman talks with therapist and screen-time educator Julie Frumin about the digital world kids are growing up in—and how to push back.
Parents are opting kids out of school laptops, returning them to pen and paper
Featured in Tech News, NBC
By Tyler Kingkade | February 16, 2026Julie Frumin broke the news to her 11-year-old son in the minivan on the way home from school.
His laptop was being taken away.
His face lit up. “Really?” he asked, beaming with excitement.
It wasn’t a punishment. It was a victory Frumin had fought hard for.
Interview in As It Happens, CBC
February 16, 2026A California mother, Julie Frumin, pushes her school district to give her children homework that doesn't involve screens. She says despite the challenge, every parent should be given that option. Interview begins at 00:39:00