Mom & Dad: Screen Time Without Guilt

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode: Zak Rosen talks with Phillip Maciak, TV critic with The New Republic, teacher at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of the book, Avidly Reads Screen Time. He explains where the concept of screen time started and how it became this marker of good (or bad) parenting. Recommendations: Zak: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie + The “Mouse Game” Jamilah: The Barbie movie 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. Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcasts for Monday, August 14th,
0:37.3	your eyeballs are going to fall out of your head edition.
0:41.4	I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting
0:45.3	Column and mom to Naima, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles.
0:49.5	I'm Zach Rosen. I am also host of another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show,
0:54.0	and I'm the dad to Noah,
0:55.2	who's five, and Ami, who's two. We live in Detroit. Today on the show, we're welcoming back Phil Macyac.
1:02.1	He was here last time to Laud your favorite TV show, Bluey. He's back today to talk about one of the
1:07.6	hottest parenting topics around screen time. That's also the name
1:11.6	in his new book, which traces the history and meaning of this complicated topic. We'll hear
1:16.3	Zach's interview with Phil right after this break. This episode is brought to you by Indeed,
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