Don't just go to the beach this summer. That's basic. Go to the beach and see former President Trump, Governor DeSantis,

Kayleigh McEnany, Senator Ted Cruz, and more at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, July 22nd through 24th in Tampa, Florida.

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It wasn't until this year that I learned there are teenagers so addicted to gaming that they don't even stop playing when they have to go to the bathroom.

They just urinate and empty gatorade bottles and line them up under the TV.

The Department of Defense has had to create an entirely new protocol to track child deaths due to parents being distracted by technology.

Infants who sit in front of iPad screens from birth are unable to use building blocks because of their screen addictions.

When I got my first phone ever, it was a pink razor in 8th grade. It never occurred to me how fast our technology would progress.

Now, anytime I'm out to dinner, there is a child and I'm talking under five even with their face glued to a screen to keep them distracted.

And I'm not a mom yet, but I cannot help but think. How are we allowing kids to be so good at using phones so young?

So used to having screens in front of them and our adults actually making a generation of kids into addicts.

I went out to dinner just the other night with my boyfriend in Newport Beach, that's where he lives.

And I could barely hear him talk because the family sitting next to us was letting their baby watch a show on an iPad the entire dinner with the volume up full blast.

I was obviously personally irritated, but also I was concerned. Like does no one wonder what that does to an infant's brain?

So of course, I got to researching as I do all my parenting questions and found an amazing book about this.

And I had to get the author on immediately. He's a psychologist, writer, former clinical professor at Stony Brook Medicine in a world where

now speaker he specializes in addiction and is one of the top addiction experts in America specifically when it comes to young people's

addictions to tech and screens. And I am so excited to say that he is here today to dive into the digital addiction, plaguing America's children,

what makes tech so addicting society's lack of purpose and how it influences young people, how it influences brain development.

And what all this ultimately means for the future, please welcome the author of glow kids, Dr. Nicholas Cardaris to the spillover.

You know, Dr. K, when I would hear people talk about addiction when it comes to screen time or video games and children,

I always thought people were using it loosely like an exaggeration, oh my son is addicted to video games.

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