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The Clark Howard Podcast

11.8.19 How screen time affects your kids brain; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A new study shows that the effects of screen time on small children could be physically changing their brains. The study which was published in JAMA reports a decline in "white matter integrity" of 3-5 year olds because of time spent using screens. Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning

0:10.1

ways to save more and spend less.

0:12.7

And don't worry, whenever rip you off, Clark.com is our website, ClarkDeals.com is our

0:19.7

bargains website where we post deals for you around the clock.

0:25.2

Starting up later, deal or no deal, when you feel like I do a good job, thank you, when

0:31.8

you feel like I let you down, let me know.

0:35.5

Go to Clark.com slash Clark Stinks.

0:38.6

And coming up later, we're going to have Clark Stinks on the air.

0:43.2

You get to hear where people feel I didn't do my job.

0:48.7

So I am guilty as charged.

0:52.6

You don't even know what I'm guilty of yet.

0:55.8

But as a parent, I feel the guilt.

1:01.4

Like so many other parents, I thought it was so cool that my preschool age kids, when

1:08.9

they were preschool age, could pick up a tablet and just make magic happen on that thing

1:16.3

with no instructions, nothing.

1:19.5

And so many parents, you look in a restaurant, they're using a tablet as like a babysitter.

1:26.3

Other kids are out at dinner.

1:28.2

Kid who's normally a wiggle worm and disruptive is totally engrossed in the tablet.

1:34.4

And it becomes a kid's pacifier and babysitter at an extremely young age.

1:40.8

I did this thing.

1:42.8

Now with my oldest, because no size a tablet existed when she was a kid, but with the two

1:48.4

younger ones, they both were tablet kids, my fail.

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