Jacob Ward's Warning | Are Smartphones Bad For Kids?!

The Don Lemon Show

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Society & Culture, News

3.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Hey Lemon Nation! These days, it seems like everyone has a smartphone—but are they actually good for kids? Journalist Jacob Ward joins us to dig into the data and separate fact from fear. What do smartphones do to developing brains? Are there any upsides? And what exactly makes them so risky for young users? If you’ve ever wondered whether your kid should have a phone, this one’s for you. Let’s get into it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Are smartphones bad for kids?
0:33.4	This is the question that's been bothering parents like me for a long time, ever since
0:38.8	we've had kids or ever since they've been smartphones.
0:41.8	And a new study out of the University of South Florida has a lot of people talking and they're
0:45.7	especially talking about the possibility that perhaps it's not as bad as we think, that we
0:51.0	don't actually have to be as worried about smartphones or keep kids away
0:54.6	from them as much as we thought we did. So that study, I want to talk about it and the sort of general
1:01.2	difficulty we have in figuring things out about this and the general scientific takeaway that we
1:05.9	have so far. So this study in particular is out of the University of South Florida. It was a study of
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