Are Kids Technology Crackheads?
Good Moms Bad Choices
The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, Good Moms question if we're all raising tech-addicted children, why it might be worth ditching the nail salon and switching to press-on nails, and the importance of surrendering to the mess and simplifying your life.
Timestamps:
- (01:20) Back-to-school chaos + surrendering to the mess
- Co-parenting differences: Kids act more independent at dad’s houses, while moms sometimes overcompensate.
- (7:55) Tech-addicted kids and why boredom is healthy
- Rethinking education and self-learning. Traditional schools are designed to make “worker bees” vs. “free-thinkers”
- Good Moms want to implement tech-free hours but admit it’s hard to enforce.
- (37:13) Beauty standards, gel nails, and DIY deodorant
- Gwyneth Paltrow and the "Goop" Empire
- Europe bans nail polish chemical over health concerns, U.S. still allows ingredient
- Erica shares about the DIY deodorant she tried to make using natural ingredients
- Non-toxic swaps that actually make sense (01:15:00)
- (40:06) Love Island reunion, colorism, and reality TV brain drain
- Reality TV Stars and Their Long-Term Plans (45:50)
- Brittany Renner family drama (48:26)
- (1:01:00) Good Vibes Retreat
- (01:39:00) Affirmation + tarot: surrender to the mess, embrace abundance
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Marcus Grant. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Michael Florio, and together we host the NFL fantasy football podcast. |
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| 0:22.7 | Whether you're a rookie manager or a fantasy vet, we've got the insight to help you crush your |
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| 0:37.6 | Once upon a time, there was a good old traditional housewife. |
| 0:41.4 | She couldn't. |
| 0:42.1 | She cleaned, cared for her children and the man of the house. |
| 0:45.2 | And of course, she didn't talk back. |
| 0:47.5 | She was both obedient and soft by nature. |
| 0:50.0 | She was a good woman who always made good choices. |
| 0:53.3 | Come on. |
| 0:54.0 | Shut that shit off. We're good moms bad choices. Two single moms who always made good choices. Shut that shit off. |
| 0:55.2 | We're Good Mom's Bad Choices. |
| 0:56.5 | Two single moms who said fuck the patriarchy. |
| 0:58.8 | Sheared all their bad choices. |
| 1:00.1 | And sound out they weren't so bad after all. |
| 1:01.7 | We're experts. |
| 1:02.4 | Overshares. |
| 1:03.2 | And your new besties. |
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