Kids + Screen Time (Screen Series: Part 1 of 3)

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Laura and Sarah discuss their different approaches to kids and tech. Sarah discusses their recent experiment with "screen free May" and Laura addresses the escalating complexities as kids get older.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
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0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:37.9	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:43.9	And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:49.2	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:55.1	Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. In this episode, Sarah and I are going to be
1:07.9	discussing kids and screens, the topic of screen time, the content,
1:13.3	the various rules we have in our house or general philosophies, what we've seen other people
1:18.3	do and are thinking on that. So lots of different topics in there to discuss. So Sarah,
1:26.5	well, first, this is going to be part of a series of episodes on screen time.
1:30.5	So we'll get to adults and screens later, and we've got a great guest coming up as well
1:34.9	to talk about, you know, young adults and screens as well. So Sarah, you just had a screen-free
1:43.0	month experiment in your house. Maybe you can tell us a little
1:46.7	bit about that, what led to it, and sort of how it went. Any discoveries you had in the
1:52.5	course of doing so? Yeah. And I guess I want to preface this episode by noting that this is
1:58.6	one of those areas where there is no obvious right answer. And you can even
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