Over Protected

Childproof

Gwenna Laithland and Tori Phantom

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A recent Harris Poll found as released and had internet parents in an uproar. Tori and Gwenna had a bit of a different take. In a data driven world, how do you cut through the click bait headlines to see what the data is actually describing. Do we have a long series of struggles helping our kids navigate tech? Sure. Is it a huge problem that kids aren’t building forts outside anymore? Maybe not as big a problem as the reporting would have us believe. In this episode of Childproof Gwenna and Tori take on helicopters. (Spoiler: We win.) Link to the poll We want to hear from you, what do you think about these statistics? Email us: childproofmail@gmail.com Subscribe for preshow bonus content Be sure to check out our other shows: Founded Bibliophage Preorder Gwenna's new book Thinky Thoughts Childproof is a part of the Airwave Media network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I literally had a conversation with my eight to 12 year old the other day where I was like,
0:05.3	you used to read more books.
0:07.2	Like, I don't know.
0:07.9	Like, what's up with that?
0:08.7	You're watching more TV.
0:09.7	Like, I was always had my nose at a book at your age.
0:12.1	And she goes, you didn't have as good TV shows.
0:14.8	Like,
0:15.8	Raising a well-behaved child in Israel requires strict discipline and punishment.
0:21.6	Today we will look...
0:22.6	No, the f*** we will not.
0:25.6	Hello and welcome to Childproof, an airwave media podcast. I'm Tori Phantom. And I'm going to
0:43.2	Lathland, and this episode goes out to all of the helicopters. The ones who once were and who currently
0:48.1	are hovering and the ones trying their hardest not to be overprotective.
0:56.5	Did you have a helicopter era?
0:58.9	My brother used to call me an Apache.
1:00.3	Did you?
1:06.3	Listen, weirdly, I'm still trying really hard to lower myself to the dang ground.
1:07.3	Same.
1:09.1	Let's start the timer.
1:10.2	All right. Okay, so I found this Harris poll. It was all over the,
1:17.4	the internet for like a hot second. And when I first read it, I was like, oh, this is, this is wild.
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