Mom & Dad: If You’re Tracking Your Kids, Should You Tell Them?

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode: Zak Rosen, Jamilah Lemieux, and Elizabeth Newcamp talk about parenting digital citizens. Elizabeth sits down with author and speaker Dr. Devorah Heitner about her latest book, Growing Up in Public. The book helps guide parents through navigating social media and phone usage for their kids — and the privacy, freedom, and surveillance issues that come along with phones. We also go over our week in parenting. And then, for Slate Plus, we’ll debrief on our conversation with Devorah — and how the hosts handle screentime and internet access in their own households. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. 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 ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. This episode contains explicit language. Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting
0:36.7	Slate's parenting podcast for Thursday, September 14th, the Growing Up in Public Edition.
0:43.0	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose.
0:47.2	I'm the mom of three littles, Henry who's 11, Oliver who's 9, and Teddy Who's 6.
0:51.9	We live in Tokyo, Japan.
0:56.5	I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast.
1:01.7	It's called The Best Advice Show. And I am dad to Noah, who's six, and Ami, who's going to be three this week. We live in Detroit. I'm Jamila Lemieux. I'm a writer, contributor to Slate's
1:07.1	Karen Feeding Parenting Column and Mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles.
1:12.5	Well, you guys, I'm super excited about today's show. I'm talking with Devorah Haitner, who wrote
1:18.5	the eye-opening book Growing Up in Public. It delves into the intricate world of social media
1:23.6	and how it's impacting our kids. I'm sure many of you, just like me, are feeling a bit
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