We are all being affected by technology. We are all in this together. The other side is really

tech companies that are trying to profit off of stealing our lives from us. And so that reframing,

I think, is incredibly powerful, and it's been wonderful to see that young people are open to that

as well.

Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about

progress made practical. If you are a parent today, chances are you have had this kind of moment.

Your kid is talking to you, and you realize that you are only half listening because you are looking at your

phone. Parenting in this age is full of so many layers of extra challenges thanks to technology.

When do we get our kids' smartphones? How much video game time is too much? What safeguards can

be put in place to ensure our kids are okay online?

But what's easy to forget is that as hard as it is to parent during these technologically advanced times, it's even harder to be a kid.

Imagine being an adult where your childhood memories are based around screens.

Think about what you would miss out on from instruments learned to relationships built to fun had if there was always a device calling your name.

Consider for a moment the pressure kids face socially to be online and then how doing so creates so much for them to navigate

emotionally and timewise too. We all know this truth. Screens are dramatically changing

childhood. So what do we do about it? Today's guest is Catherine Price. She was previously on

about her

best-selling book, The Power of Fun. Catherine's most recent book, The Awesome Generation,

combines her expertise on tech-free living with Jonathan Haidt, her co-author, and his

groundbreaking insight on how screens are misshaping kids' childhoods. The Awesome Generation is a graphic

novel-style book designed for ages nine on up and their caregivers. I bought it myself,

read it, and so have three of my kids all unprompted. I was so transformed by how this book

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