Kids & Screens Revisit: What the research actually says, with Neuroscientist, Dr. Cindy Hovington
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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EP416. It is a screen time revisit! As parents, all we hear about is how bad screens are for kids. We are bombarded with guidelines about how much screen time kids should get and what kinds of shows they should be watching. Dr. Cindy Hovington breaks down what the research actually says about screens. She gives us tips for how to manage screen time at home, she tells us what her favourite kids shows are, and she stresses the importance of balance when it comes to screens and other activities.
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| 0:49.5 | Welcome to the mom room. It is Tuesday. It is July 9th, which means we are revisiting one of our favorite |
| 0:57.5 | episodes on a topic that is extremely important and very, very, you know, screens are a topic |
| 1:05.0 | that I thought a lot about and to the point where I was doing my own research on screens because it's one of those |
| 1:12.8 | parenting topics that is very polarizing and you feel judged if your kid is on a tablet. |
| 1:19.5 | So many times we would go out for dinner and Milo was tired. |
| 1:23.6 | He's super young and so we would let him watch a show and I just felt like the eyes looking at me. |
| 1:30.0 | And I was like, why, like, why are people so uptight about screens? |
| 1:35.3 | And I did some research on it because at the time when Milo was small, they had put out the new guidelines for screen time and kids. |
| 1:44.0 | And I was like, yeah, but how do you determine this? |
| 1:46.9 | I was just very interested in the behind the scenes research of it all. And so I had on Dr. |
| 1:53.9 | Cindy Huffington. She is a neuroscientist and she answered all our questions about screens |
| 1:59.3 | and explained what the actual research says. |
| 2:04.7 | And if our children are going to be watching TV, what are the kinds of shows that they should be watching? |
| 2:12.0 | I am recording this on Monday right now, this little brief introduction and my in-laws got in last night. I had what I thought |
| 2:20.7 | was me dying happen. And of course, it was right after my husband left to go to the airport |
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