Dopamine has become one of the most dangerous drugs to students today. Students need to be aware of the addictive power of smartphones today, the side effects and risks of social media, and the many dangers of video games ranging from gambling addictions to isolation and loneliness.
It is part of our mission at selfctrl to educate the next generation about the dangers of today’s technology and to equip them to do something about it. We’ll educate and equip your student body with practical tools they can use to identify issues and craft plans to limit or eliminate screen time problems as they come up. We’ll encourage them to engage with friends in real life, to take breaks as often as they need with social media, to get help if they can’t moderate themselves, and most importantly to identify goals and healthy alternative ways to spend their time.
We’ve seen many students quit Tiktok, take month long Instagram fasts, quit a specific video game, and more after we come and share. All of which have studies showing that those students mental health will increase. We want students to redeem that time to do good instead.
See below for photos and highlights from recent school events:
Speaking to student athletes at the University of Arkansas with FCA.
Encouraging 6th – 12th graders at Shiloh Christian School.
selfctrl is all about helping people to redeem their time for doing good works. Ian has taken multiple churches through Screen Time University as parent events and student events. People are “too busy” to volunteer or get involved in the mission of their church but spend 3-8 hours on screens everyday. Screen Time University will challenge them to think critically about their time and walk through what the Bible teaches about self-control and how they can redeem screen time for doing good instead as God intended.
See below for photos and highlights from recent church events:
Parent Forum at Fellowship Fayetteville.
Parent Workshop at Prairie Grove, First Baptist Church.
Gen Alpha, Gen Z and Millennials grew up with tech their whole lives. The temptation to scroll while there are no customers at the register, or play a video game on the side while working from home is immense. One poll of 1700 young remote workers shows an incredible 70% said that they play video games when their employers think they’re working. Your business is bleeding money to screen time and selfctrl can help.
Host a selfctrl training for your team where they’ll be challenged to set goals for their career, recognize how screen time on the job isn’t healthy for them and isn’t making them into the people that they want to be. Over a series of trainings and entry and exit polls, we’ll measure your team’s productivity and amount of lost wages due to screen time prior to training and after training. We’re so confident in our plan, that you’ll pay based on a percentage of those regained hours based on your team’s survey answers.
Ian McCready founded selfctrl to help people redeem their time from technology for doing good works. Ian was a video game addict in college playing 12-14 hours a day. Later in life, with a full-time job, spouse, and child he was still struggling with video games keeping him up too late and becoming a constant distraction from his priorities… until he quit video games entirely.
After quitting, he was asked to speak to his nephews, friends’ kids, and others asking for advice on how they too, could break the hold tech has over their kid’s lives. Parents felt totally unequipped to handle tech in their homes. It was not just kids, but adults were needing help too. The ministry grew from there and is a 501(3)c.
Today, Ian speaks to schools, churches, and businesses helping people of all ages recognize tech’s hold on their life, resolving to change, and acting on a plan to redeem their time for doing good instead. Learn more on our about page.
