How much screen time is too much?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tai and all of his friends are in a constant war with their parents over one big thing — screen time. For years, their parents have been telling them that screen time is bad and needs to be limited. But is it really? Tai finds out. In this episode Tai talks to: - Kara Bagot, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine - Madeleine George, psychologist and analyst at RTI International - Jenny Odell, writer and artist, author of How to Do Nothing. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:04.0	Ty, you ready to go?
0:06.0	Hold on, Dad. Can I just have one more game on a call with my friends?
0:11.0	My parents and I get along pretty well, even though I'm a teenager.
0:16.0	But there is one thing that we fight about.
0:19.0	Ty, come on, man. How long have you been playing that game?
0:22.0	It doesn't matter. I did all my homework.
0:25.0	Enough, enough. Enough with the screens. Come on, we gotta go.
0:29.0	Ugh, they're always going on about screen time.
0:32.0	Screen time, screen time, screen time.
0:35.0	What our parents don't get is we have to spend time with screens.
0:41.0	We have the homework screen, then the big screen for fun,
0:46.0	plus the small screen to talk to our friends,
0:49.0	which is extra important during the pandemic.
0:52.0	Everything we do these days seems to involve screens.
0:56.0	Heck, my piano even has a screen.
0:59.0	So, if we need them so much, then can it be all that bad for us?
1:04.0	It's not like my parents are limiting their screen time.
1:07.0	They both work on the computer all day long,
1:09.0	and I always see them on their phones texting or whatever.
1:12.0	So, what's the problem?
1:15.0	If we need them so much, then can screens be all that bad for us?
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