Our Phones & Melon Talk
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This episode is sponsored by Epic! a digital subscription library for kids in preschool through age 12 that we both enjoyed using with our kids. Listeners can get a two month trial of Epic! for free by visiting www.getepic.com and using the promo code NEIGHBOR.
We want to make sure you know that our next book club book will be This Is How It Always Is so grab a copy and join us for the next Girl Next Door Book Club in November!
We chat all about those indispensable and distracting devices that we all now carry around: our phones! We wax nostalgically about the phones of our past and what we thought about texting when it first appeared. Then we talk about how we use our phones today and how healthy our habits are around phone use. Plus we share our favorite apps and the apps we wish someone would invent.
Things we mention on the show:
Society6 and Kelsey's wood grain phone case
A Beautiful Mess, Canva, and VSCO photo editing apps
Pocketcast podcast app
T. Alan Wood Designs and the desk Kelsey bought (customized to be standing height)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former next door |
| 0:09.5 | neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to come on in, |
| 0:14.3 | have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. So one quick housekeeping thing today is that we want to make sure everyone knows that our next |
| 0:22.5 | fall book club book will be, This Is How It Always Is by Lori Frankel. That episode will air in November, |
| 0:29.7 | so you have plenty of time to read along with us. As do I. Okay. Get on that. I do expect you to |
| 0:37.1 | be there. Yes, I need to actually finish that. So we have a really |
| 0:40.4 | fun topic today. We are chatting all about the indispensable accessory. None of us can seem to live |
| 0:45.8 | without our phones. We'll talk nostalgically about our first cell phones, what state our app organization is in, |
| 0:55.8 | phone habit wins and fails, and the apps we wish someone would invent. We'll kick things off with a snack in a minute, |
| 1:01.1 | but first we have a word from today's sponsor. Epic is a subscription digital library with more than |
| 1:06.7 | 25,000 high quality popular children's books, audio books, videos, quizzes, and more for kids |
| 1:12.9 | in preschool through age 12. So we have each had a chance to check out Epic with our families. |
| 1:17.6 | How have you guys been using Epic over at your house? You know, my kids have a reading requirement |
| 1:21.7 | as part of their homework. So usually teachers will assign, you know, 10 to 20 minutes. And it's just a |
| 1:26.6 | really nice way to switch that up and make it fun. |
| 1:30.0 | Like Vanessa recently ran out of her chapter books from the library. |
| 1:33.6 | And so because she's hard to keep up with in the reading department. |
| 1:36.4 | So it's just like endless resources on Epic. |
| 1:39.5 | So I just say, okay, you can get your tablet out and read a book on there or, you know, watch and listen to an |
| 1:45.8 | audiobook or whatever. And so she's getting her reading time in, but it feels like we're pretty |
| 1:50.7 | sparingly using the tablets. And so it feels like a treat every time they get to use them. But I feel |
| 1:55.8 | really good about it being a book and educational and, you know, a good way to use them. Yeah. So we love audiobooks in our family. |
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