You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting

you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. Today we're talking about kids

and screens. We'll share the ways our kids are currently using screens and what our screen time rules are.

Plus, we'll talk about how we evaluate new media apps and tech.

We'll swap our favorite recommendations and share kids screen time fails.

But first, what's been happening around your neighborhood?

Okay, so I took the girls to the aquarium as an early birthday celebration for Julia.

She's still obsessed with sharks.

So I took them to the aquarium and I purposely planned it for when school was like here,

public school was in like the last week.

Because I'm like, surely there won't be a lot of field trips that last week as they're just doing like class parties no one would do that oh I promise

you multiple kindergartners did that why and I just really was like I hate this I hate this so much

and I just looked at the mom and it was actually be like a fun mom. Yes. And it was actually,

I was like, just let them blow past because, you know, they all come in at once and they're

trying to kind of stay together. Right. And a herd. And so I'm like, just move to the side.

Right. Just wait it out. Because, you know, they don't even actually look at any of the exhibits. They're so wild and, like, excited to be out of school.

So it's like my girls are actually at the age where they want to kind of, you know,

look at where that fish is from or whatever and Julia's really into the sharks. So I was like,

just step aside. And I'm just looking at these parents wrangling this herd of cats. And they all

look sweaty and exhausted already. Like their eyes are wild. Just from standing outside of cats. And they all look sweaty and exhausted already.

Like just from standing outside.

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