Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich and the founder of 1000

Hours Outside. We're going to be talking today about a book that every parent needs to read.

It is called human raised. You want your kids to have the advantage of mostly being raised by a human in this age of AI.

The subtitle is nurturing connection, curiosity, and lifelong learning in the age of AI.

Author, Dr. Dana Susskind is here. She is New York Times best-selling author of Parent Nation

and 30 Million Words, founder and co-director of TMW, Center for Early Learning, Plus Public Health,

founding director of the pediatric cochlear implant program, professor of surgery and pediatrics at the

university of chicago she's also authored more than 45 scientific publications and is a member of the

american academy of pediatrics a fellow for the council on early childhood and her work has been

featured in the new york times the economist forbes freakonomics. Sometimes, Dana. I'm like, how am I even getting to talk to this person? Huge congrats on all of your success. Oh, thank you so much. I'm the one who's excited to talk to you. What a movement you built. So thank you. Okay, so the new book that you have coming out. And actually, it's going to be out by the time this podcast goes live. People can go grab a copy. It's a great book to read over the summer. Just like what kind of a parent do you want to be? What kind of a home do you want to have heading into the school year? Especially as this AI is progressing faster and faster. It is called Human Raise. So I would love if you could kick us off,

Dana, with this front lines view you've had of the waiting rooms. So you're working in

pediatrics and it used to be really loud. And you were kind of like, oh, I wish it was quieter.

But then it became quieter because kids are on screens

and you say things have really changed and there's a lot that's being lost in the silence.

Yeah, you know, I'm a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon, so my whole world is about connection

and talking and, you know, I've been taking care of children for longer than I'll admit.

And I always used to walk into my waiting rooms.

And it was loud and noisy, you know, just the bustling of little kids laughing, crying, having meltdowns.

And I used to joke, I'm like, oh, it's so loud.

But in the last few years, it has become eerily silent. I mean, literally everyone

from the mother, father, child, older sibling, toddler infant is on their screen scrolling. And

there was just this eerie silence that was a signal for, I think, something larger that we're all

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