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This month, awesome marriage, we're talking about quality time in marriage and different ways to find quality time.

Today we're going to be talking specifically about minimizing screen time.

So Dr. Kim, let's go ahead and define screen time for those who may have not heard the term.

I feel like most people have probably know what we're talking about when we say screen time, but just in case someone hasn't heard

it before, what would you define it as?

Yeah, because I think it has evolved.

I mean, I think there was a time before we had mobile devices that, you know, it's the

big screen, little screen.

It's the movie theater and the TV, and people struggled, oh, you're watching TV too much

or stuff. Well, now we've added computers as screens. We've added our mobile devices

as screens. We've added iPads, all those kind of things that we have that we've added. So we've got

all these things that can distract us. I mean, none of them in themselves are bad at all. It's us,

I think, figuring out how do we use them, When do we use them? When does it take away from

family time, from time with our spouse, and when does it not? So I think any of those things,

when you've got your eyes on a screen, a screen time. Yeah, definitely. I agree. And I think,

I agree with you 100%. I think it's any and all time put in front of a screen. And I think

one temptation here is to only think of screen time as

entertainment. And then we really begin to trick ourselves because we think, oh, well, if I'm reading a book

for educational purposes and it's on my iPad, that's not screen time. Or, oh, if I'm listening to a

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