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Welcome to another episode in the parenting series, episode 124.

Today we're talking about phones, oh man, that's right, telephone, not a telephone, smartphones, TVs, screens, all the things, hold on.

Dr. Delight's going to just finish this strong here. Put the needle on the record in the drum beat goes like this.

Alright, there we go. Thank you, Dr. Delight. Yeah, friends, it's a very special episode where myself, I am the voice you're going to be hearing.

I'm interviewing myself with maybe a pop-up special guest.

But today we're talking about tech, we're talking about tech and parenting and this is quite possibly the most requested conversation I'm parenting that I get constantly all the time.

I used to go out with this organization called Orange and I would do, sometimes I would do some technology breakouts.

And here's the thing like technology when it comes to kids and phones and screens and all the things.

It's continuing to evolve, right? So like what worked five years ago? They were great apps that worked five years ago. They don't work anymore.

And it's evolving so fast that even the apps that you try to use to protect your kids six months ago are being left in the dust because, well, things are moving fast.

Faster than we're able to keep up with. And so I've got some solutions for you.

But what I want everybody to understand is it's inevitable, inevitable that your kids are going to be exposed to smartphones or whatever devices like at an earlier age than ever.

And we can all judge parents that you see a two-year-old watching an iPad just staring at it and we're quick to being like, oh my gosh, I would never.

But do you even know the story of why that is happening? We just get real judgey real quickly and I want us to make sure we don't do that.

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