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Music Michael Del Rosario at apologetics guy.com. You're listening to The Russell Moore Show, where we look for signposts in a strange time

by standing fast to what really matters.

Kingdom over culture wars, truth over tribalism, pilgrimage over partisanship, sanity over cynicism,

witness over winning, and Christ over everything. Today we have a listener question as we seek

to do just that.

Sometimes we like to answer questions here on the show by pulling in one of our guests.

And that's what I did with our friend Jonathan Haidt, who is, of course, the author of the book The Anxious Generation.

John, thanks for doing this today.

Russell, what a pleasure. I always enjoy talking with you.

And our producer, Leslie Thompson, has the question. Leslie, what are we talking about today? I do have a question, and I confess, as the mother of a four-year-old, this question rose to the top of the inbox when I saw it. I thought this would be perfect for when we have John on the show. So the question says, I'm a millennial parent, and it's important to me that my children spend time with their grandparents, of course,

but it's evident that the screen addiction I've worked to overcome has its roots in my upbringing,

and my mother's own addiction becomes her go-to time filler when my children are with her

for an extended time, like a weekend

visit. And she started a habit of letting my kids watch YouTube on her phone, which is not something

we do in our house. I've asked her to keep the phone away, but it does not happen. How harmful is this

periodical YouTube device-driven screen time? And how hard should I push to keep the

boundaries set? That is such a good question because I think what it gets across is that this isn't

just a problem for kids. This is a problem for all of us. These things, social media in particular

and YouTube, they're designed to keep us engaged. So I think the first step is you have to be

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