10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World with Dr. Jean Twenge
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Twenge graciously joins us in season 6 to talk about raising kids in a high-tech world. Dr. Twenge is one of the most prominent researchers of our day on generational differences and how screens are harming our brains and ability to related. But not only does she research it, she lives it and makes it incredibly practical for us as parents.
She highlights a few key truths. For example, did you know that the average teen uses just social media alone for 5 hours a day? Also, why are we not questioning Silicon Valley CEOs who follow the rules of drug dealers? “Don’t get high off your own supply.”
Dr. Twenge not only talks about these facts but also chronologically walks us through each age for setting tech rules (see time stamps).
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:48 Dr. Jean Twenge shares research on happiness and what she did with her own children
7:50 What to do if your child is the only one who doesn’t have a screen
10:54 Tech rules for preschool - early childhood years
15:25 The research on happiness, depression, & inattention
17:57 Tech rules for late childhood years - pre-teen years
20:05 Latest trend: AI boyfriends and girlfriends
22:50 Video-gaming
24:45 Tech rules for teen years
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| 0:00.0 | Probably the most important thing I want to say to the parents of teens is your kids are not going to be left out and they are not going to be socially isolated if they are not on social media. |
| 0:11.3 | That is such a huge meth I hear it all the time and it's just not true. |
| 0:17.2 | Kids have so many other ways to communicate with each other. |
| 0:20.2 | They can call and they can do FaceTime and they do that even though they sometimes say it's crinched. |
| 0:24.3 | My 15-year-old did that the other day. |
| 0:26.1 | This idea that they absolutely have to have social media to be able to be social just isn't true. |
| 0:31.3 | I won't lose hope in the night when the fire's growing down |
| 0:38.3 | I'll just let go and I'll try |
| 0:43.3 | help me walk this road and find my way back home |
| 0:48.3 | Find my way back home |
| 0:52.3 | Find my way back home. |
| 1:00.0 | Come my way home. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome back to the Famous Had On Podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | We are in season six in a series called Relational Intelligence and Kids, |
| 1:09.0 | and I'm so honored today to be able to introduce to you, Dr. Gene Twangy. |
| 1:14.1 | She is a generational expert. |
| 1:16.6 | She wrote a book a number of years ago called IGen, really looking at the different |
| 1:20.9 | generational impacts. |
| 1:22.1 | But then more recently started to study the impact of mental health challenges on kids and teens because of |
| 1:31.3 | screens. She has a brand new book out called The 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High Tech |
| 1:35.9 | World. What I love about Dr. Twenge is she's not just a researcher. She makes it incredibly |
| 1:43.0 | digestible for you a parent to be able to implement |
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