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Chasing Life

Inside a Lab Studying Toddlers and Touchscreens

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Think back to the first time you held a smartphone or tablet in your hands. For most adults, this probably happened later in life. Now, a new generation of kids is growing up exposed to screen time as toddlers, or even babies. What impact will this screen time have on their very young and still growing brains? Dr. Dimitri Christakis takes us inside his lab at the Seattle Children's Research Institute and demonstrates how he studies some very young research participants. Plus, Dr. Christakis sits down with CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and shares his most realistic tips for setting screen time limits.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, who's that?

0:07.0

It's Cookie Monster.

0:10.4

In a room filled with toys, three-year-old Malik is having a blast playing with his dad

0:15.8

Adrian.

0:16.8

Do you see these numbers here?

0:18.2

Yeah.

0:19.2

What are these numbers?

0:20.2

Um.

0:21.2

Do you recognize this one?

0:23.2

Um, one, two, three, four, five.

0:27.2

Oh, very good.

0:28.2

Now, let's see.

0:29.2

Um, we'll greet him.

0:35.1

And as Malik tells my producer, Grace, this is his favorite way to spend his time.

0:40.6

What are your favorite things to do, Malik?

0:42.6

Um, toys.

0:45.6

But make no mistake.

0:50.1

Today is not just about fun and games.

0:55.5

I can't tell you all what happened for sure with Malik, but what we have seen on average

0:59.6

is that children find it much more difficult to disengage from these highly stimulating

1:04.6

apps.

1:06.2

That's Dr.

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