This is PEDYACAST.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome. Once again to PDACast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 395 for January 31st, 2018.

We're calling this one babysitting, smartphones, social media, and happiness.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

We have another information-packed show for you this week.

We're taking a little bit of a different approach this time around,

and including some topics that affect parents as well as kids.

And because these things affect parents who take care of kids, they do in turn affect kids as well.

For instance, as we consider babysitting, we're going to approach the topic in terms of safe babysitting.

What do babysitters need to know to take care of kids safely and where you can find training to help them do their job well?

Of course, this impacts the kids they take care of, but also, you know, many older youth, sometimes young youth.

And of course, young adults who may not have kids of their own.

Sometimes even middle age and older adults, you know, maybe they had kids a long time ago and things are a little different now.

So, you know, lots of different people can be the babysitter.

So this topic affects everyone from the newborns who are being babysat to grandparents

in one way or another.

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