81: Kids & Phones: What’s the Right Balance? (with Sissy Goff)
The Simplified Podcast with Emily Ley
Emily Ley
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Getting a phone is a huge step for a kid (and their parent!), and there’s a lot to figure out: what’s the right age to get one? How can we help them use it in a healthy way? Social media, or no? Emily’s been asking these questions herself since her sixth-grader Brady got his first phone a few weeks ago. And to get some advice, she’s turned to child and adolescent counselor Sissy Goff! Sissy’s a favorite around here (her episode on helping kids manage anxiety in Episode 30 is one of our most downloaded episodes ever), and this week she and Emily talk about how to help kids create a healthy relationship with technology. Sissy shares a ton of great info in this episode, including: how to build healthy boundaries around phones, which apps keep kids physically safe and mentally well when using their phones, and how to soothe hurt feelings when friends have tech privileges they don’t.
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| 1:30.5 | We just had a big day here in the layhouse. |
| 1:32.8 | After lots of research and so much consideration, Brian and I decided it was time for Brady, |
| 1:38.2 | our sixth grader, to have his very own phone. |
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