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The Minimalists

Managing Screen Time for Kids

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss how to ensure children are not adversely influenced by technology with author and professor Emily Oster. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0

Da Minimists.

0:02.0

Hmm.

0:03.0

Alright, before we dive into this episode, the minimalist one to help you declutter your

0:06.6

glowing screen.

0:07.9

So head on over to theminimists.com slash wallpapers to download any of our free minimalist wallpapers,

0:15.0

including our love people use things wallpapers for your smartphone or computer.

0:21.1

Enjoy.

0:23.1

Alex Andrew says, how can a parent help motivate their children to engage and interact with

0:31.1

their surroundings instead of pacifying them with phones and tablets and other glowing

0:36.4

screens?

0:37.4

Wait a minute, Alexander, who is giving your kids tablets, phones and glowing screens?

0:42.8

Like did they just show up like with a glowing screen?

0:45.4

Well, let's take a low screen, Fairy.

0:47.8

Right.

0:48.8

I mean, do other one of your kids have a tablet or anything that they share?

0:52.0

There's a, we have, so we have some screens.

0:55.8

We have a, I have an iPad, which we all kind of use.

1:00.6

There's a single iPad.

1:02.5

And then they have candles, which they use primarily for audio books, but also for watching

1:06.9

some TV.

1:09.1

You know, we don't watch a lot of TV, but we watch the kids watch some TV.

1:12.8

TV has programming and that kind of stuff.

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