Mom & Dad: The “Screen Time Semantics” Edition

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this week’s episode: Zak, Elizabeth, and Greg Lavallee advise a listener whose rambunctious little one is on his third visit to the emergency room. How can our listener teach him that he can get hurt if he keeps up with the daredevil antics? They also debate how to talk to kids about screen time and how to set up healthy boundaries with devices. On Slate Plus, they lament the impending winter clothes chaos. Recommendations: Greg recommends asking your cool adult friends to give your kids compliments. Elizabeth recommends Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty. Zak recommends taking yourself to the movies. The new Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch, is a great pick-me-up. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com 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. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson. Don't miss the member-exclusive segment on MADAF every week. Sign up for Slate Plus now at slate.com/momanddadplus and you'll also get to skip the ads, read everything on Slate.com, and support this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just to give you a heads up, one of us is bound to say something not suitable for little ears.
0:07.0	Welcome to Mom and Dad Our Fighting.
0:10.0	Slates Parenting Podcasts for Thursday and November 11th.
0:13.0	The Screen Time Semantics Edition.
0:15.0	I'm Zach Rosen.
0:16.0	I have two kids, Noah's Core and Ami's One, and we live in Detroit.
0:20.0	I host the Best Advice Show Podcast.
0:23.0	It's a very short, three-times-a-week podcast featuring your best advice.
0:27.0	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose.
0:32.0	I'm the mom to three littles, Henry, his nine, Oliver, his seven, and Teddy, who is five.
0:37.0	And we live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
0:40.0	I'm Greg LaValle. I'm the VP of Technology for Slate Magazine.
0:45.0	I'm the father of Nina, who is eight and three-quarters.
0:48.0	And you go who is six. And we live in Washington, D.C.
0:52.0	On today's show, we've got a question about getting rough and tumble kids to slow down.
0:56.0	Our listener's kid is on his third ER visit.
1:00.0	Oh man.
1:01.0	Then we are going to help a parent whose twin bristles at any suggestions that screens can be addictive.
1:06.0	How should she have a productive, non-confrontational talk about screen time?
1:11.0	On Slate Plus, we're tackling that pile of clothes on the floor.
1:14.0	No, not the one in the corner of your kids' room.
1:16.0	The one that's always beside your front door, as soon as the weather changes.
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