Give Your Kids A Super Power: Not Fearing Fitting In

From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys

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2.6 • 544 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It can be hard to not give your children cellphones when it seems like almost all their peers have one, but is teaching children that fitting in is more important than their mental well-being the lesson parents want to teach? Rachel and Sean discuss why parents shouldn't feel guilty for gifting kids with a childhood filled with playing outside, fostering creativity out of boredom, and connecting with friends organically -- not filling their minds with content from screens. They also discuss the consequences Columbia University students are facing after engaging in pro-Palestinian protests on campus, despite receiving written and verbal warnings to not participate. Follow Sean & Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to From the Kitchen Table. I'm Sean Duffy, along with my co-host for the podcast. She's also my partner in life. She's also my wife, Rachel Campo Stuffy.
0:22.9	Sean, it's Q&A. It's Friday. It's Friday. I love it. It's our highest rate. The show people
0:27.5	love Q&A, and they have sent in some great questions. One of the questions, Sean, is related to
0:33.2	what happened last weekend on Fox and Friends. So people wanted more information because it looked like there was a little bit of,
0:39.9	I don't even say, friendly tension on the couch where we were debating about phones.
0:43.3	So we had this psychologist on his name.
0:47.4	He's actually a professor of ethical leadership, I should say, at NYU.
0:51.9	His name is Jonathan Haight.
0:55.0	And he has basically advised that children should not have a phone before the age of 16.
1:05.0	And he looked at mental health rates that he can literally, and we've seen this before, we've covered this
1:11.3	in other shows where you just put the graph of children's mental health and then when phones
1:17.7	were introduced and suddenly mental health totally drops. He says that in 2010, play-based
1:23.9	childhood ended and phone-based childhood began. Just think about that. Play-based childhood ended and phone-based childhood began.
1:28.3	Just think about that.
1:29.3	Play-based childhood ended in 2010 and it was replaced by a phone-based childhood.
1:37.3	He basically says that we are, what we're experiencing, what we've experienced even in the span of when we've had kids is a complete rewiring of
1:46.9	childhood away from playing and towards phones and devices and so this is this this this moment that we're
1:54.4	in where so many parents like you and i like pete like will we grew up playing outside, riding our bikes, you know.
2:02.0	Find kids in the neighborhood, making up games, playing with each other. And again, you start
2:07.8	today, having no idea what you're going to do and who you're going to play and who you're
2:10.7	going to play with and what games you're going to play. You couldn't even coordinate, by the way.
2:14.1	You just kind of had this general meetup place where everybody kind of sort of met up there or at someone's house.
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