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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Carrie James and Emily Weinstein, principal investigators at Harvard’s Project Zero, join to discuss their book, Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing). They’ve been researching teens and screens for over a decade and not only did they collect insights from 3,500 teens, they worked “side-by-side with teens every step of the way.” They learned that teens still want adults’ help with navigating tech and social media—they just need the conversations and support to be a lot more nuanced.
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Podcast produced by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:29.2 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to mom and dad are fighting. Slate's parenting podcast for Monday, |
| 0:38.1 | October 3rd, the behind-their screens edition. I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, |
| 0:44.1 | contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom Tanayima, who's nine and a half, |
| 0:48.8 | and we live in Los Angeles. I'm Zach Rosen. I make a podcast called The Best Advice Show. |
| 0:54.5 | I have two kids. My oldest Noah is five and my youngest army is two. We live in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1:00.7 | Today on the show Elizabeth caught up with Harvard researchers Emily Weinstein and |
| 1:05.2 | Carrie James about their book behind their screens. What teens are facing and adults are missing. |
| 1:10.6 | It's a really unique look at phone usage because they collaborated with teens on their research. |
| 1:15.6 | We'll be playing that interview for you. But first, we wanted to jump into our Monday mail bag. |
| 1:20.7 | We got this letter after our episode with Casey Davis where our listener thinks her |
| 1:24.4 | nieces on the spectrum is wondering if she should tell her brother. |
| 1:28.6 | It reads, |
| 1:29.6 | Hi mom and dad. I've been in similar situations with friends whose children appear to be displaying |
| 1:34.8 | some neurodivergent characteristics. I am a speech-language pathologist, so I've usually |
| 1:39.3 | waited for the parents to vent about a behavior or developmental skill first. This opens the door |
| 1:43.9 | to asking them, what does your pediatrician say? Both my kids had early intervention services, |
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