47. Kids, Phones, and Mental Health with Kate Northrup

Plenty with Kate Northrup

Kate Northrup

Personalfinance, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Nervoussystemhealing, Education, Womensempowerment, Wellness, Pleasure, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Abundance, Embodiment, Productivity, Timemanagement, Business

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Are our children losing their connection to personal power and mental well-being due to the pervasive use of phones?

In this deeply personal episode of the Plenty Podcast, I dive into the impact of phones and social media on children’s mental health and development. Inspired by a recent compelling article in The Atlantic, I talk about my views on the disturbing trends in adolescent mental health linked to screen time. I share my practices to limit screen exposure and call for community agreements and support to delay phone and social media use among children. I encourage the importance of unsupervised outdoor play and the need for myself and all parents to regulate their nervous systems to support their children’s optimal development.

Despite today’s cultural narrative, this episode will have you thinking about your own kids and phones. Let’s dive in.

“If given the option to get off, the kids all wanted to get off, but they didn’t feel like they could because of the disconnection and social ostracism of not being on there.” – Kate Northrup

Resources:

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now by Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt

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0:00.0	They took a group of high schoolers and asked them how much they would need to get paid in order to go off social media.
0:10.2	And they came up with, I can't actually remember what the amount was.
0:14.1	It was a way lower number than I would have ever expected.
0:17.0	Then they asked them, okay, how about if everyone else in your school or in your social group was getting off social media, then how much would you need to get paid?
0:28.0	And they said nothing.
0:29.1	I would get off immediately.
0:30.5	Which to me is just like really disturbing.
0:34.2	Welcome to Plenty.
0:35.7	I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey to help you have an incredible relationship with money, time, and energy.
0:46.5	And to have abundance on every possible level. Every week, we're going to dive in with experts and insights to help you
0:56.4	unlock a life of Plenty. Let's go fill our cups. Please note that the opinions and perspectives
1:04.0	of the guests on the Plenty podcast are not necessarily reflective of the opinions and
1:08.9	perspectives of Kate Northrop or anyone who works
1:11.8	within the Kate Northrop brand. Today I have an episode for you that is very personal. And while it is
1:19.0	related for sure to the greater work that we do here around helping people heal their
1:23.7	relationship with time and money, it is adjacent to that. And it's about kids and phones.
1:31.0	So I have been somebody who has been very bounderied about my kids and screen times since day one.
1:40.5	I'm, you know, I've done a ton of research about EMFs. One of the things we do as a family is we turn off our Wi-Fi at night.
1:47.5	We even turn off the electricity on the breaker in the kids' rooms.
1:51.0	I mean, I can be, you know, I'm like, couldn't hurt.
1:55.5	Might help.
1:56.7	So we do a lot to kind of calm down the energetic field in our home, to protect our bodies,
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