Flora McCormick
The Hidden Cost of Tech as “Entertainment”: Rebuilding Creativity in the Digital Age
In today’s world, even preschoolers are handed screens to “keep them entertained.” Yet every swipe replaces a moment of boredom, curiosity, and self-directed play - the roots of creativity and confidence. In this session, Flora McCormick, LCPC, shares how technology impacts brain development and independent play, and offers simple, practical strategies to help children (and parents) rediscover imagination, independence and the gift of being bored.
Audience: Montessori guides, assistants, and parents of children ages 2–6 who want to foster focus, creativity, and calm in a tech-saturated world.
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Flora McCormick
Flora McCormick, LCPC, is a licensed counselor and internationally recognized parenting coach with over 15 years of experience supporting parents and educators. As the founder of Sustainable Parenting, she helps adults bridge the gap between overly gentle and overly harsh approaches - teaching how to be both kind and firm at the same time. Through her podcast, workshops, and trainings across the U.S. and abroad, Flora equips parents and teachers with practical, brain-based tools that nurture confidence, connection, and cooperation in children. She lives in Montana with her husband and two spirited kids, who continually inspire her work.
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I like how you really emphasized unstructured play and all the characteristics that the unstructured play can help develop in a child. As a teacher I have seen evidence of the children blankster not really understanding how to think for themselves and those questions. What makes you sad and what makes you happy where? We’re so sad to hear they’re good questions, but the answers were very sad. Thank you for your information
Thank you for your thoughts. 🙂
Thanks so much for more awareness what screen time is doing to children’s brain and giving us the challenge to turn off the screen and allow the brain to reset.
We live in a fast-paced world, and parents are going fast with all thing’s meals, bathroom routine, less bedtime reading and rushing out the door we need to slow down and connect to each other then we will have less anxiety in children and behavior issues.
More unstructured play will allow for more creativity.
Absolutely!