1KHO 54: It's Okay to Say "Not Yet," The Power of Delaying Smartphones and Social Media | Brooke Shannon, Wait Until 8th | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, S3 E27

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Find the answers to so many of your tech questions here. Brooke Shannon, mother of three and founder of Wait Until 8th walks us through the immense challenges we face today in regards to technology with new insight, practical tips, and encouragement to stay the course. Wait Until 8th, Let Kids be Kids Just a Little Longer is a pledge that will empower parents to rally together to delay the smartphone at least until 8th grade. By banding together, this will decrease the pressure within the child’s grade to have a smartphone. Learn more about Wait Until 8th here: https://www.waituntil8th.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Yerich. I am the founder of
0:06.4	1,000 hours outside and I'm thrilled today to be with the founder of a movement I
0:11.1	have been following for a very long time called Wait until 8th. Brooke Shannon
0:16.7	welcome.
0:17.7	Thank you so much for having me on here.
0:20.1	It's so good to connect with you and your community and you know, likewise have been following your movement as well.
0:25.7	And I love it.
0:26.8	I think the more time kids spend outside being kids,
0:30.3	they're better they're gonna be during their childhood and adulthood as well.
0:34.1	Yeah, yeah, and I feel like the longer we wait for smartphones, the better they're going to be as well.
0:43.2	Let me read a little bit of your bio.
0:44.8	Brooke Shannon is the founder and executive director
0:47.5	of Wait until 8th.
0:48.8	The Wait until 8th pledge empowers parents
0:51.8	to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone
0:54.7	until at least eighth grade. Brooke works with parents and communities
0:58.6	across the country to help families establish a healthy relationship with technology.
1:04.0	She is a national speaker on how to parent in a digital arena and has given keynotes to the American
1:09.6	Enterprise Institute and numerous schools and churches.
1:13.0	Brooke also is a resource to the media.
1:15.1	She's appeared on the Today Show Good Morning America, NBC National News, NPR,
1:19.4	CNN headline news, and close to 40,000 families from across the country have taken the wait until
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