Upcoming Events
- SURREY, BC: Professional Development Workshop – August 26-27, 2025
- LANCASTER, PA: Keynote Speech – September 18, 2025
- BRACEBRIDGE, ON: Keynote Speech – September 29, 2025
- LINDSAY, ON: Keynote Speech – September 30, 2025
- WOLF LAKE FIRST NATION: Keynote Speech (Virtual) – October 28, 2025
- GRAND RAPIDS, MI: Keynote Speech – November 12, 2025
- HOLLAND, MI: Keynote Speech – FEBRUARY 12-13, 2026
Media Appearances
- All
- Interviews
- Writing
CTV THE SOCIAL: Do THIS to Get Your Kids Off Screens
YouTube: Talk About Kids’ Screen Time
STANWOOD CAMANO NEWS: Author Urges Screen Time Limits
SHIFTED PODCAST: In Conversation With Katherine Martinko on How to Get Kids Off Screens
CFRA LIVE: Is Quebec’s all-out classroom cellphone ban going too far?
RAISING DAUGHTERS WITH DR. TIM JORDAN: How Parents Can Take Back Their Daughter’s Childhood
DEAR NINA: Friendship, Phones, and the Problem of Distraction
DOPAMIND KIDS: Digital Minimalist Parenting With Katherine Martinko
QR CALGARY: Radio Interview on Why People Flake on Social Invitations
COMMUNITY TALK: St. Richard’s Episcopal School, Indianapolis IN
THE BEN MULRONEY SHOW: I let my 9-year-old ride his bike alone to the store
QUALITY OF LIFE: Katherine Martinko on digital image making and children’s rights
ON THE BAY MAGAZINE: Childhood Lost
GLOBE & MAIL: A day in the life of a screen-free kid
NEWSTALK 1010: A day in the life of a screen-free kid
RADIO NEW ZEALAND: Feature Interview: Strategies to keep your family analog
GLOBE AND MAIL: You can be a good parent without taking a photo of your child’s every waking moment
GREEN CHILD MAGAZINE: Poison Plastic
GLOBE AND MAIL: Want kids to be safe? Then ditch their smartphones.
GLOBE AND MAIL: My teenaged son still doesn’t have a smartphone. Here’s why.
CBC RADIO: Island Morning With Laura Chapin: Why my son still doesn’t have a smartphone (Sept. 3, 2024)
BORN OF WONDER PODCAST: Interview With Katherine Johnson Martinko
HUNTERS BAY RADIO: Arts R Us + Katherine Martinko
CBC RADIO: Yukon Morning With Elyn Jones: How prolonged screen time affects children
WORLD Radio: Social media safety
DENSE DISCOVERY: It’s the Adults, Not the Kids!
WORLD NEWS: Social media tempts teens with pornography
GLOBAL BC: Campaign to Ban Smartphones Gaining Steam
RRAMPT MAGAZINE: Become a Digital Minimalist With Katherine Johnson Martinko
THE ART OF PARENTING: Childhood Unplugged With Katherine Martinko
BRUCE COUNTY LIBRARY: Author Talk With Katherine Martinko
FINE HOMEBUILDING: Sustainable and Stylish
THE MORNING SHOW, Global TV: New poll shows Canadians may be in favour of banning TikTok
Global BC: Help Your Child Unplug
MONTREAL NOW With Aaron Rand: Observing the Global Day of Unplugging
THE MIKE FARWELL SHOWS, CityNews Kitchener: Observing the Global Day of Unplugging (Mar. 1)
TORONTO STAR: Where are all the real toys this Christmas?
77WABC RADIO TALK SHOW: Katherine Johnson Martinko
PIQUE NEWS: Childhood Unplugged author outlines the harms of teen smartphone use in Whistler talk
LET GROW: If you curtail your kid’s screen time, what can fill the void?
CJAD800 RADIO (interview): What is social media doing to kids’ brains?
CBC NEWS: THE NATIONAL (with Ian Hanomansing): Practical advice to get your kids off screens
THE JACKIE SERVISS SHOW: Childhood Unplugged with Katherine Martinko
GREEN CHILD MAGAZINE: Low-Tech Parenting: Tips From a Digital Minimalist Mom
ATLANTA PARENT MAGAZINE: August, September, October 2023 issues
THE MIKE FARWELL SHOW, CityNews KW: Mother manages to raise teens without cell phones
IN THE VILLAGE: Kids are wasting their lives staring at cell phones
GLOBE & MAIL: My son is starting high school and he still doesn’t have a cell phone
CBC Radio, interviews across 17 stations nation-wide. Link unavailable
WHERE PARENTS TALK: Unplugging Childhood With Digital Minimalism. Interview with Lianne Castelino
MICHAEL KWAN: Childhood Unplugged: How Katherine Martinko gets kids off screens (and how you can too)
LIVING SMALL WITH LAURA FENTON: Finding Balance for Kids and Screens
SAUGEEN TIMES: Local author gives practical advice to get kids off screens and find balance
ZOOMER RADIO: “Screen Chat.” Go-To Grandma with Kathy Buckworth
IG LIVE: Chat with Linda McGurk, aka Rain or Shine Mamma
NEW SOCIETY BLOG: This tool will make free-range parenting far easier
MEDIUM with Paul Greenberg: 10 Ways to Get Kids Off Screens.
SHORELINE BEACON: Port Elgin mom and author to launch new book
MUSKOKA REGION: 5 tips for taking kids on a canoe trip this summer from Muskoka-born mom
WEST COAST FAMILIES: Childhood Unplugged Boredom Busters