Managing Screen Time Without Losing Your Mind

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth and Zak talk with Ash Brandin, author of Power On, about managing screen time without guilt or panic. They discuss realistic strategies and why screen time doesn’t define parenting quality. Then, a listener’s question about school tech mandates gets some thoughtful answers. Plus, Slate Plus offers kid-friendly tech picks. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask questions, share feedback, and suggest future topics. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an extra weekly grab-bag of content on the Plus Playground, an ad-free experience across the network, and support the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus — or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Listen to Opportunity Gap wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnk.to/opportunitygapPS!careandfeeding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode may contain explicit language.
0:03.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:08.0	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch goose.
0:12.0	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy, who's 7. We live in Tokyo Japan.
0:17.0	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another show. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I am
0:21.5	Dad to Noah Who's Seven and Ami Who's Four. We live in Amsterdam. Today on the show, we're
0:27.1	joined by Ash Brandon, author of the book Power On, managing screen time to benefit the whole family.
0:33.1	First, they're going to fill us in on everything we need to know about safely navigating screen time without spiraling into panic or power struggles.
0:40.8	Then we're going to answer a listener question.
0:42.8	We'll be right back.
0:46.3	Hey, it's Anna Sale, host of death, sex, and money, the podcast from Slate about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
0:55.3	And recently, we asked you to tell us stories about your beauty interventions, what you've
1:00.6	decided to invest time and money in to improve your appearance.
1:05.3	So I looked at my dad, and I looked at him carefully, and I said, no, no, no, no, no, no,
1:11.9	we are, we are going to sail in a different direction than this.
1:17.1	We heard from people who spent thousands on plastic surgery, fillers, and skincare routines,
1:22.9	and from others who decided to reject pressure, like covering grades.
1:27.5	It's kind of like, why do I need to do that?
1:31.4	I mean, for you?
1:34.4	Is it for you?
1:36.3	Or, because you're embarrassed to have a friend or a spouse with gray hair?
1:42.5	I mean, what is the encouragement from?
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