Kids feel anxious. Parents feel hopeless. Why it’s so hard to limit social-media use.
Apple News In Conversation
Apple News
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. surgeon general recently recommended that all social-media platforms come with a warning label alerting parents and young people of their risks. Meanwhile, some schools are moving to ban phones altogether. Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu talks to psychologist Mitch Prinstein, an expert in adolescent development, about what we actually know about the effects of social media on kids’ brains — and his compassionate advice for navigating smartphone use in your family.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemika Basu. Today, what we actually |
| 0:10.1 | know about social media and kids brains. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I am back from attorney leave. |
| 0:14.0 | I had a baby. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, I am back from maternity leave. I had a baby. He's great. Now for my first episode |
| 0:28.6 | back, I wanted to talk about a topic that I've been thinking about a lot as a new parent and that's phones screens |
| 0:35.9 | social media my son is just six months old and already he's so curious about my phone. He grabs at it all the time when it lights up he lights up and it just makes me feel like |
| 0:49.7 | Ooh this is just the beginning, isn't it? |
| 0:53.0 | Hi, my name is Chris. I've got two daughters. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi, my name is Sue McGory. |
| 0:57.0 | I have three daughters. |
| 0:58.5 | My name is Joe. I have three kids, 11, 8, and 6. |
| 1:02.0 | Seven and 10 year old. |
| 1:03.4 | 9 and 12. |
| 1:04.4 | The social media thing has already started. |
| 1:06.2 | Kids are on Snapchat. |
| 1:07.4 | And Instagram. |
| 1:08.1 | Tik-talk is their main drug of choice. |
| 1:10.8 | We have attempted to employ social media and smartphone rules. |
| 1:15.4 | Can we not give them a phone until they had high school? |
| 1:17.8 | I kept them off social media until 12th grade. |
| 1:21.5 | I have tried to ban Tik-Tok as much as I possibly could. |
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