And I just think, like, man, like, there would be no Ed Shearin if Ed Shearin had an iPhone at age 12.

Hey, guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast.

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What's up, guys, Jeff and Jeremy here for another five-minute fatherhood. We know that one of the

most difficult things to manage is screen time when you have toddlers.

Because, man, you can hand them that little device.

We call it the tranquilizer.

You know, our kids just like, phew.

You know, we are like, oh, we have peace and quiet.

And so it is like so tempting to overuse screens with kids.

And so there's a perspective, I think, that's been

really helpful for us to think about when we think about this topic. You guys probably have

heard a lot of the research done about the dangers of screen times with kids. There's an article

out by the New Zealand Herald called Smartphones, Tablets,

Causing Mental Health Issues in Kids as Young as Two. And they said just an hour a day,

staring at a screen can do enough to make, be enough to make children more likely to be

anxious or depressed. They had this research to talk about the zombie mode kids get into at nearly five hours a day,

just looking at electronic devices. Research from San Diego State University and the University of Georgia

say time spent on smartphones is a serious but avoidable cause of mental health issues. And so we are,

our kids are living through an experiment of how much and how early

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