Kids + Technology with Jean Twenge

Coffee + Crumbs Podcast

Ashlee Gadd

Storytelling, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Toddlers, Friendship, Pregnancy, Grace, Coffee, Adoption, Miscarriage, Parenting, Motherhood, Newborn, Christianity, Crumbs

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How do we guide our kids as they grow up in a world where the internet is infused in practically everything they touch? Today, renowned researcher Dr. Jean Twenge joins us for an eye-opening conversation about how smartphones are affecting kids—and also us. We chat about the link between social media and depression, how boys and girls are influenced differently, and how screen time affects younger children. While this topic can often feel overwhelming and/or doomsday-esque, Dr. Twenge offers us a good mix of tangible suggestions, practical tips, and the much-needed reminder that we need to model healthy relationships with our own smartphones first. Whether you’re already navigating the phone situation with your older teens, or rocking babies and not thinking about any of this yet, we hope this episode informs and encourages you as you continue making decisions around technology in your home.

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0:00.0	We believe motherhood is a gift and art not a science. We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together.
0:14.6	Most of all, we believe motherhood is wholly work.
0:18.8	At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. This is the Coffee and Crumbs
0:25.8	podcast.
0:26.7	Hey friends, welcome to the Coffee and Crumbs Podcast. I am here with Katie and today we are joined by
0:35.6	renowned researcher and San Diego State Professor of Psychology, Gene Twangy, to cover a big topic, kids and technology. And before we jump into this conversation, I just want to acknowledge this stuff is overwhelming. I, like probably many of you and part of the generation that grew up with and without the internet.
0:58.8	My early childhood had no internet whatsoever, but my tween teen years did. Fun fact, I was given a computer with unlimited internet
1:07.9	access in my bedroom when I was 12 years old. That seems absolutely insane now, but it didn't seem insane at the time. I don't even
1:19.3	really blame my parents. Back then, parents had no research no data nobody was talking about the
1:26.6	internet's impact on our mental health smartphones didn't exist social media didn't exist everything was was brand new, all of it was uncharted territory.
1:36.0	I think we all can agree, it's 2024 and things are a lot different now.
1:42.0	Technology and the internet are infused for better and for worse in almost everything we touch.
1:48.8	Not only are we actively using the internet more, we are also studying the effects of it more.
1:55.0	Right, and these days we actually have the data.
2:00.0	We didn't have 25 years ago.
2:02.0	We have the research both the actual numbers and just
2:07.1	our observations of it all. And so, you know, how much I love data and research. And so this is an important part of the conversation today.
2:15.5	You know we joke a lot on this show about how we're not experts in anything, which is
2:20.2	1,000% true for this conversation as well, but we are joined today by a legitimate expert.
2:27.6	So she can say that she is.
2:30.8	Jean Twangi is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University.
2:35.0	She's the author of more than 180 scientific publications.
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