{"id":46782,"date":"2026-04-23T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46782"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:18:47","slug":"is-your-family-addicted-to-screens-and-junk-food-how-to-change-their-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46782","title":{"rendered":"Is your family addicted to screens and junk food? How to change their habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/22\/71ecaf9b-3d56-4fca-83d5-83eb161fb2e1_85392aaa.jpg?itok=XgwU8Lx3&amp;v=1776827762\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Michaeleen Doucleff set out to examine her and her family\u2019s relationship to \u2013 reliance on, really \u2013 screens and junk food.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Why was she checking texts at every stop sign when biking with her daughter, Rosy? Why was she mindlessly devouring Pringles crisps?<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Why did Rosy impatiently count the minutes to nightly cartoons from the moment she got home? When was the last time they ate a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">whole food<\/span>?<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">At the beginning of her reckoning, Doucleff prepared herself for a lesson in willpower. If she was going to come to terms with how lousy these guilty pleasures were for her and her family, she was also going to have to <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">find ways to forgo them<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI believed that I had fallen in love with pleasure and that I had too much pleasure in my life,\u201d Doucleff writes in her new book, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Dopamine Kids: A Science-Based Plan to Rewire Your Child\u2019s Brain and Take Back Your Family in the Age of Screens and Ultraprocessed Foods<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTherefore, to lift away the grey gloominess that I felt, I needed to accept less pleasure in life. I needed fewer rewards. And as a parent, I needed to show Rosy how to accept less pleasure as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3350945\/your-family-addicted-screens-and-junk-food-how-change-their-habits?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaeleen Doucleff set out to examine her and her family\u2019s relationship to \u2013 reliance on, really \u2013 screens and junk food. Why was she checking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7190,3876,238,108,3793,21185,6199],"class_list":["post-46782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-addicted","tag-change","tag-family","tag-food","tag-habits","tag-junk","tag-screens","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}