Glad I Did / Wish I’d Done: Tech And Devices: Episode 368
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Among parents, technology and screen time can be a loaded topic. How much is too much? Is that movie too mature? And what’s the best age for a first phone? In today’s episode, Meagan and Sarah share the role technology played in our families when kids were little, and reflect on how things changed as they grew. We discuss the tech parenting choices we still stand behind today, and with hindsight, what we could have done differently. Join us!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 368 of the mom |
| 0:26.6 | hour. I am Sarah Powers here at last with Megan Francis. Hey, Megan. Hey, Sarah, |
| 0:31.8 | we had a few technical issues this morning. So well, actually, and we tried |
| 0:37.6 | record this one a couple of days ago and had major technical issues that day. So |
| 0:42.4 | it's just been a day and a half. It has every once in a while, I think it's |
| 0:47.3 | good to let the listener in on that. I listened to a couple of podcasts, |
| 0:50.6 | interview podcasts where sometimes you can tell at the start of the interview |
| 0:54.9 | that they've just spent 30 minutes like troubleshooting with like, can you |
| 0:58.5 | hear me? Can you hear me now? And right, you know, to pull back the curtain a |
| 1:02.2 | little bit, we want to just get on and have a conversation for you all. And |
| 1:06.2 | sometimes technology behaves and sometimes it doesn't. So we're both taking |
| 1:10.3 | a taking a breath here before we get into today's topic. Well, and I just |
| 1:16.8 | had, I mean, talk about feeling dumb. I love that the topic today is tech and |
| 1:20.8 | devices that could not be more fitting. But I am on Eric's PC. I don't |
| 1:26.4 | really ever use PC anymore. I used to, but I haven't and probably, geez, like |
| 1:32.5 | 12 years, 10 12 years. And I felt so dumb. I'm like, everything is different. |
| 1:37.4 | I couldn't figure out where to go. His computer is ancient because it's just |
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