Ep.305: AI Meets Parenting: Ginko’s Solution to Screen Struggles
Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker
Dr. Meg Meeker
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this insightful episode of Parenting Great Kids, Dr. Meg Meeker welcomes Larissa May and Dr. Raghu Appasani, co-founders of Ginko—an AI-powered parenting tool designed by clinicians to help families manage screen time and support their children's mental health. As screens increasingly dominate our kids' lives, this episode offers a powerful look at how Ginko promotes digital wellness through early intervention, behavioral insight, and personalized parenting support.
Ginko is not just another screen-limiting app—it’s a clinically informed platform that helps parents understand their children's emotional state through their digital activity. Larissa and Dr. Appasani share how Ginko personalizes digital guidance, supports healthier habits, and equips families to foster stronger, emotionally connected relationships in the digital age.
Whether you're a parent feeling overwhelmed by tech, or a professional navigating the intersection of mental health and technology, this episode provides compassionate and data-driven solutions for raising healthy, tech-savvy kids.
Our Guests:
Larissa May: Globally recognized as the face of digital wellness, Larz has shaped policy and youth-centered advocacy.
Dr. Raghu Appasani: An Integrative & Addiction Psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at UCSF and Mount Sinai. Check out Ginko here.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of Parenting Great Kids. |
| 0:03.7 | But they never asked me about how technology was impacting me. |
| 0:08.0 | I basically spent the last 10 years actually building a nonprofit, |
| 0:11.5 | educating young people called Half the Story about mental health and technology. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to Parenting Great Kids. |
| 0:19.0 | Here's your host, Dr. Meg Meeker. Joining us today are Larissa May and Dr. Raghu |
| 0:25.3 | Apasani, co-founders of Ginko, a new AI tool built by clinicians to help families manage screen time. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome to Parenting Great Kids, Larissa and Dr. Raghu. Thank you so much for |
| 0:39.4 | having us. On our podcast, we've covered the topic of digital safety. And what I found is that |
| 0:46.4 | parents and grandparents feel overwhelmed. And they feel like I don't know what I'm doing. |
| 0:51.8 | I don't know where to start. This is totally intimidating |
| 0:55.4 | for me. So tell me more about Ginko. Well, I'm happy to kick that off. I think most founders |
| 1:02.6 | build something that they need for themselves. And I've been working in the digital wellness |
| 1:07.9 | space for the last 10 years. And for those of you that haven't |
| 1:11.1 | heard about the term digital wellness, it's the idea that we can develop a positive and healthy |
| 1:16.3 | relationship with technology in the same way that we have to try to do that or teach our kids to do |
| 1:21.5 | that with food and other things in our life. And when I was a college student, I was really the |
| 1:26.8 | first generation that went to college with a device or social media when I was a college student, I was really the first generation that went to college |
| 1:29.0 | with a device or social media. And I almost lost my life because of my struggles with mental |
| 1:35.0 | health and found it so interesting that even though I was at Vanderbilt, an incredible |
| 1:40.0 | health care institution, that the psychiatrist had asked me about all these other things in my life |
| 1:45.6 | that potentially could contribute to what I was experiencing, but they never asked me about |
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