How to Disconnect from Your Phone and Reconnect with Your Family

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How are mobile devices affecting our physical and mental health? How are they affecting our relationships? In this age of constant internet connection, we are facing an epidemic of living inside our phones instead of with the real live people in front us.

In this short episode, I talk about four reasons why spending too much time on your phone is harmful and what The Dad Edge Alliance is doing to set boundaries for screen time.

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0:00.0	We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge.
0:10.0	We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others.
0:14.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.0	Why not make it epic?
0:29.0	What's going on guys? What's going on guys?
0:30.0	Welcome to the Good Dad Project Podcast, episode 76 of Thursday Throwdown.
0:34.8	Just gonna get right into it today, you guys.
0:37.2	Because I've got something new, so maybe even a challenge.
0:41.4	Guys seem to love challenges and we love challenges and we're doing
0:45.8	something kind of different over in the Dad Edge Alliance mastermind
0:49.1	community for the month of October. I want to give you guys an update on what we're doing, why we're doing it, and I don't know.
0:56.6	Maybe this might be something that you want to do yourself after hearing this. And if you do, let know because I would love to hear the results. So what
1:06.2	we're doing in the month of October in the Dad Edge Alliance is we are foregoing, we are giving up
1:12.4	social media from the hours of 5 PM to 9 PM.
1:17.3	And not just social media, it started there, but we're actually giving up our mobile devices
1:22.3	in the evening.
1:23.1	I mean, how cool is that?
1:24.0	So from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
1:25.6	We talk about it all the time.
1:27.4	You know, I don't know if it actually gets done or not.
1:29.6	I know I'm extremely guilty of being on my device.
1:32.2	I'm like, uh, you know, I'll just go over here,
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