iPad Childhoods: The Hidden Cost of Growing Up on Screens & Social Media with Dr. Lisa Strohman

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Should you post photos of your children's faces online? What about screen time? iPads? This week, Dr. Amen and Tana are joined by Dr. Lisa Strohman - who is an attorney, clinical psychologist, and author. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Strohman has spent more than a decade working with individual, family and adolescent clients struggling with issues including depression, anxiety, addiction and technology overuse. She is the founder and director of Digital Citizen Academy, one of the first organizations to address the global issue of technology addiction and overuse.

https://digitalcitizenacademy.org/

Correction: Dr. Strohman is not an FBI agent, but an FBI visiting scholar.

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0:00.0	I tell parents all the time that a phone unrestricted is actually more dangerous than a loaded gun on a table.
0:07.0	You cannot educate the evil that's on those phones and those devices that comes to them.
0:11.9	Dr. Lisa Stroman is a clinical psychologist.
0:14.6	Ted Talk Speaker.
0:15.6	Author, former FBI agent, attorney, and the founder of the Digital Citizen Academy.
0:20.4	Recognized for her expertise in youth technology addiction. Dr. Amen, Tanna, and the founder of the Digital Citizen Academy, recognized for her expertise in youth technology addiction.
0:23.3	Dr. Amen, Tanna, and Lisa discuss the dangers of smartphones and social media for kids.
0:28.4	Parents are sharing far too much. The minute you put that image out there, they actually can take that image and create movies with that child, pornographic content, and then those are sold overseas.
0:38.6	The minute that you put your child's image online, you've lost control.
0:42.3	So you as a parent, the only thing you have control over is to protect that child the same way
0:47.1	that you don't want a stranger in your house.
0:48.8	Why would you put their image out online?
0:50.5	And what do you think about Snapchat for kids?
0:52.3	Oh, Snapchat, I think is.
0:57.0	Every day, are making your brain better or you are making it worse. Stay with us to learn
1:03.8	how you can change your brain for the better every day. Hi, this is Dr. Daniel Eman.
1:17.8	I am so thrilled to talk about our brand new course, Brain Thrive,
1:22.0	for preschoolers through grade one.
1:36.0	In this course, we're going to teach kids to love their brain, to know that it's amazing, to know that it controls everything they do and everything they are.
1:51.6	Because if they learn to love and care for their brains, everything in their life will be better. Welcome.
1:52.4	We have such an exciting guest today.
1:54.5	I love this topic.
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