When I'm in public it is overwhelming sometimes how many people are on their phones this comes

into crystal clarity when I'm in an airport. Oh my goodness everybody everybody's on their phone, they're all clogging the walkways, you can tell I don't like that.

It happens that in this very world, your children are glued to their phones and it's not just when they travel it seems like all the

time how do you help them navigate this i'm john fuller with uh... our vice president

of parenting dr dany werta

and danny i know you've got some research and stats. Talk about kids and

their use of screens and how often and all that.

Yeah, it's called actually the digital heroin by some researchers.

Yes.

Because it matches up in the dopamine hit, matches up with what drugs do to our brain. They say that it's a portable dopamine pump that we're

carrying around. And dopamine is that motivator, a neurotransmitter we've got

going on and it helps us anticipates a reward and go after that it helps

us find food when we're hungry but it's this pump that continuously is is putting

it up to a very high level.

They have found that social media boosts this dopamine to the same level of sex,

just with the feedback that you get in the amount of response.

And recent stats showed that close to 25% of kids that are age 3, 4-ish have a social media profile.

I'm sorry.

25% of three and four year olds have a social media profile?

That's the most recent stats.

Quit listening to this podcast and go delete those accounts if that's you please.

Yeah and kids are spending about 8 to 9 hours on screen.

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