Welcome to 10 Things to Tell You.

Why are you making that face?

Why do you say it like,

Welcome to 10 things to tell you?

Well, no, I'm at 10 things to tell you.

Okay, let's take it again, hush. Welcome to the Ten Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine and I always have at least

ten things to tell you. And you have ten things to tell, because this is a show where we believe that sharing yourself

will make you less lonely.

And my guest today who have something to share with you are my children.

You know, I only have my family on the show about once a year, and it has been a while since my kiddos Lucy and Finch have made an appearance here on 10

things to tell you but I wanted to have them on for this episode for a really specific reason. Lucy is 14, she is

finishing 8th grade, and she has had her cell phone for almost two years.

Finch is graduating elementary school about to head to middle school and when that happens

this summer he will get his first cell phone. And so we are here in this kind of middle time

where I wanted to do a check-in with them

of how they feel about phones and the responsibility and you know what goes down if there's

bullying let's talk about social media a lot of these different issues that parents think about all the time in terms

of teens and their phones but the kids themselves like they feel pretty differently about it.

They are digital natives, they have always had devices in their lives.

And so when we talk about it in our family, you know,

there's sort of just a generational crossroads, if you will.

And I thought that this would be an interesting time to sit down with them and kind of formally discuss it.

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