Dad Edge Alliance Q&A: Video Game, Porn, and Social Media Addiction with Cam Adair
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Technology is changing our lives and habits more quickly than ever before in history. We live a life of instant gratification and constant entertainment. Smart phones, tablets, and computers enrich our lives in many ways, but they can also be overstimulating and keep us from interacting with the real world. What can we do for ourselves and our families to prevent video game, porn, and social media addiction?
We had Cam Adair on last week to talk about the epidemic of gaming disorder. This topic is so important and we as a society are just beginning to understand the implications. And it's not just video games. Pornography and social media can alter our brain chemistry in the same destructive ways. We asked Cam back to do a live Q&A session with the Dad Edge Alliance so real dads could share their concerns about raising kids in the digital age.
For the show notes, links, and resources for this episode go to gooddadproject.com/180.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:15.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:51.0 | So how much screen time is too much screen time. Many of us don't know the answer to that. We have kids that are playing all kinds of video games right now. We have Fort Knight, we have Destiny and Call it Duty and Grand Theft Auto and I don't even know all of them out there to be honest with you. I just know that there is a ton of them out there and it's |
| 0:54.1 | taken a lot of our kids time. Not to mention the fact that we as fathers, mothers, |
| 1:01.8 | adults, if you just like look around, like just literally just |
| 1:05.6 | look around just the world right now, restaurants, coffee shops, gyms, airports, very few people interact with each other anymore. |
| 1:16.2 | We are all on our devices. |
| 1:17.8 | We've got our earbuds in. |
| 1:20.1 | We are looking down at a screen. why is that why is this become like such an |
| 1:27.6 | epidemic not just with kids but with us too what is it about screens that have totally rewired our brain? |
| 1:37.0 | It's really the first thing that we think about when we get out of bed |
| 1:42.0 | because we grab our phones in the morning. We're on our phones at night, |
| 1:47.3 | you know before we go to bed checking up the Facebook status, checking out Instagrams, all that good stuff, right? |
| 1:55.0 | And we're missing out on what we're surrounded by. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm not just talking to you guys listening, I talking to me too because I'm guilty of this too |
| 2:04.8 | We're all guilty of this I've been told by my kids once twice maybe even a million times to get off your phone |
| 2:11.7 | So yeah, it's not just for the listeners out there. It's not just for the |
| 2:15.3 | audience. It's for me too. And I've been so curious as to why this has become such an |
| 2:24.0 | an addiction because that's actually what it has become. |
| 2:27.4 | As you guys heard on my podcast on the show last week with Cam a deer, |
| 2:31.7 | he went into his story of how literally he almost killed himself. |
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