I'm gonna start with this one. This is actually not, uh, this is not an email, it's not

a tick. This is a comment that somebody left on YouTube on one of the shows this week

that I thought was interesting and it's not looking for advice. It's actually giving

advice. I just think it's good. So, P.B.D. Park Biz says,

parenting without screens is easy. You just have to join in and most parents won't. I don't think

my parenting is better or my child is well-behaved with a screen. They're upset for a minute and then

they forget for a few. It takes a week to break the habit that most kids have. Just take it away and

don't give it back. The screen's referring to. Be strong. Here's the part that's most important.

Spend time with them. Let them be in the room while you work. Let them ask 1,450 questions even

if it's annoying. Stop being a child yourself and parent. I think that's extraordinary advice.

It's also very basic and it should be obvious but the best advice often is and this is exactly right.

The first thing when it comes to, to modern parenting anyway, this is like one of the number one

challenges is the screen. It's the it's the siren song of all these screens that are constantly

beckoning to your children and to us and threatening to totally take over and absorb every minute

of our lives. If you want to have a happy and fulfilled family and marriage and you want happy

fulfilled children and you want to have some chance also of actually raising your own children.

If you being the one who raises them and that they're moral formation and their spiritual

formation and all of that education is largely up to you. If you want some hope of that then you've

got to be able to sever their ties and their dependency on the screen and you just got to be able

to do it. In some ways I don't have a lot of sympathy for parents that don't know how to do this

or they don't want to or they feel bad about it. If you take the screen away from your kid,

maybe you've already given them a phone, big mistake, take it away, say, well never mind,

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