Are Kids Today Addicted to Screens? l Keynote In 5
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Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
We are in control, there’s something always going on “outside” but we have more power than we think, I have amazing news for all the parents when it comes to technology, do what parents did in the 50s, 70s, and 80s .. take it away .. I know it’s not easy but parenting isn’t easy! And if this is about you, you can delete Instagram off your phone, you are in control.
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| 0:00.0 | What are your thoughts about kids and screens? |
| 0:02.2 | The issue is hypocrisy. |
| 0:05.2 | You can't talk about screens all day and say how shitty they are. |
| 0:08.3 | And then when you have your friend over and the kids are making noise, |
| 0:10.7 | you throw the iPad at that. |
| 0:11.9 | I just don't understand why parents |
| 0:13.9 | continue to blame technology instead of themselves and the second you |
| 0:17.3 | blame yourself well then you can start controlling the outcome you want. |
| 0:22.4 | We are getting better and better and better at pointing fingers. It's the |
| 0:27.4 | government's fault. It's this religion's fault. It's this tech company's fault. |
| 0:31.6 | It's this app's fault. It's this influencer's fault. We've gotten so good at blaming absolutely everything but ourselves that we're starting to hit a tipping point. |
| 0:42.0 | The reason people are so unhappy |
| 0:43.8 | is because they're judging everyone. |
| 0:46.2 | We're all judging each other, |
| 0:47.9 | which is actually just a tell that means you're judging yourself. |
| 0:51.9 | We're just in this perpetual thing and so you know I think |
| 0:55.6 | screens are incredibly positive and incredibly negative the same way I feel about |
| 0:59.9 | everything. I think we have to start the beginning of a new chapter in modern society. |
| 1:06.8 | I think it's time to start blaming ourselves. |
| 1:09.6 | And the second you blame screens |
| 1:15.0 | screens but then not enforcing it in your own home |
| 1:19.4 | when you have 100% control |
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