DO NOT Give Your Child A Smartphone Before This Age
Amy & T.J.
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3.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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A new study shows a clear association between how young a child gets their first smartphone, and depression, anxiety and obesity. A second study this week revealed that when young adults reduce their social media time, within just one week, there were significant reductions in depression and anxiety. Amy and T.J. check their phones for time spent on social media, and then compared it with T.J.’s 12 year old and it was fairly shocking.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:16.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:18.1 | It is Sunday, December 7th, and this week, one country is doing something that no country on planet Earth has ever done before. |
| 0:25.6 | They are banning all kids under the age of 16 from social media. |
| 0:32.9 | And we just got two new studies that shows they might be on to something. |
| 0:36.8 | And with that, welcome to this |
| 0:37.7 | episode of AB&TJ. Robs, it's no surprise. We get new studies and new information, but at this |
| 0:44.4 | point, we all understand that cell phones are bad for kids. Yes, and I think cell phones are probably |
| 0:50.8 | bad for all of us because of the way and how often we use them. The way we use them. It's not the phone itself, right? No, it's, you know, it's ever since we have |
| 0:59.3 | these smartphone capabilities where we can engage in whatever content we want or need to make |
| 1:05.6 | us feel however we want to feel and just literally, basically disappear away from the real world. |
| 1:13.1 | So, yes, one country is now doing something about the impact social media is having on |
| 1:19.7 | kids and they have banned it all together. |
| 1:22.0 | It kicks in this week on Wednesday, I believe I have it right, and the country is, |
| 1:25.2 | folks, Australia. |
| 1:26.8 | Yes. |
| 1:27.1 | This is something they have been keeping an eye on for quite some time. They have this thing. And I have it right. Yes, you're hearing us right, folks. In Australia, if you are under the age of 16, starting this week, you are not supposed to be on social media. You are breaking the law. Yes, it goes into effect on December 10th, and they mean |
| 1:44.9 | business. They've been talking about this for months now, and it actually goes into effect on |
| 1:49.3 | Wednesday of this week. And Malaysia is following suit. In 2026, they are going to do the exact |
| 1:55.1 | same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see countries one by one putting in these types of bans, the problem is going |
| 2:03.2 | to be enforcement, as it almost always is, with any even good or decent law, good luck enforcing |
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