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Do You Allow Your Kids TOO Much Screen Time? Listen Here And Decide!

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

How much screen time do you give your kids? This listener is concerned she might be allowing her son too much time now that he's started peeing his pants for more time with the ipad rather than take a bathroom break! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Bertro.

0:02.0

All right, Kristen, if I could give you one piece, just one piece of parenting advice from

0:09.8

a guy that has a 16-year-old, and I'm watching you with Jimmy now is two, right?

0:14.7

And I see the same complaint, the same tension between parents and their kids all the time.

0:23.0

If there's one piece of advice I can give you, it's, keep Jimmy off of the screen time

0:29.1

for as long as you can.

0:31.1

I think that's what every parent says.

0:33.1

Now, and that's going into parenting, Bart and I.

0:37.1

We were like, we're very cognizant of screen time.

0:40.1

I mean, and this is the pot calling the kettle black.

0:43.5

Like, I'm addicted to my phone and I recognize that.

0:45.5

And I'm on screen way too much.

0:48.5

Then you become a parent and you realize how hard it is and the screen can literally

0:52.5

like, like, save your sanity.

0:54.9

So I think there is a delicate balance.

0:57.8

Like, I don't want to come down on parents who do use screens.

1:00.9

I think if you use them responsibly and you're also using them for like educational tools,

1:07.4

I think they can be helpful and beneficial because a happy parent and a same parent's going

1:12.8

to be a better parent.

1:14.5

But also, you do not want your child addicted to those screens.

1:18.0

So do we use screens in our homes?

1:20.0

Absolutely.

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