Managing Social Media and Building Positive Phone Routines with Young Athletes – A conversation with Larissa Mills

In this episode educational consultant, coach and parent Larissa Mills joins Gordon MacLelland to discuss ‘Effectively managing social media and setting up positive phone routines with our sporting children’.

During the conversation they discuss amongst other things:

• Helping our children to develop ‘real focus’ in today’s tech world
• Working on creating a healthy routine around devices at home
• How the brain and nervous systems are affected by the use of devices on a physical and mental level
• Setting phone rules and standards at home and positively role modelling the rules as parents
• How the random use of phones can lead to a poor work ethic
• Educating our children about followers and enhanced safety around their social media accounts
• The negative impact of device usage on communication skills and self-worth in young people
• The perils of running a social media account for your sporting children
• Device usage before competition – what physical and mental changes are our children making to their bodies and what is a healthy pre-competition routine?

Larissa Mills is the founder and Director of the Mental Game Academy.