Parenting Strategies for the Digital Age
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Shhhh...don’t tell the kids, but grown-ups are mostly just making up the rules as they go along, especially when it comes to technology and child rearing.
This week on New Tech City, we give you a chance to sit and consider where YOU stand on screen-time, video games, and social media for our next generation. Four experts with radically different points of view, ranging from banning all devices, to full digital immersion, present their arguments.
Plus we hear parents’ deepest fears and what the kids themselves think is the right way to help them grow up healthy and confident in the digital age. There is a happy balance between technology adoption, addiction.
Join us as we try to find it.
In this show we mention two past stories we've covered. Find more about how and why to build Minecraft computer with your kids and that summer camp experiment with cell phones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friend. This is an episode of Note to Self, but from when we used to be called New Text City. |
| 0:06.7 | Same good content, just the old name. Enjoy. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm a new summer Odie, and this is New Text City. |
| 0:16.5 | And whether you're a parent, an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent, or a big brother of sister, |
| 0:23.5 | you've got to wonder, with smartphones, apps, tablets, screens, and elevators, cameras everywhere, |
| 0:30.0 | how are today's kids going to be different than you and me? |
| 0:34.0 | It's mostly after school, when you're like with your friends, and they say, |
| 0:38.5 | oh my gosh, look at, you know, what this person posts. |
| 0:43.0 | You know, he kind of are obliged, said the word. |
| 0:47.0 | Yup, that's the word. Kids, parents, we're all just trying to figure it out. |
| 0:51.0 | We're really at the forefront of what it's all going to be in the future. |
| 0:55.5 | And I'm a novice with technology, I'm happy to admit that, and I feel like my kids are going to surpass my abilities. |
| 1:02.5 | It's okay that they surpass them. I just want to make sure that they do it in a safe way. |
| 1:07.5 | What are all these hours spent in front of screens doing to their brains? |
| 1:12.0 | I have a wish that it can somehow be a part of their lives without encroaching on their tiny little imaginative brains. |
| 1:19.5 | How will never knowing a world without a smartphone change the very definition of friendship? |
| 1:26.0 | My greatest fear, which I don't think is going to happen, is that they would become shut-ins |
| 1:31.0 | and not learn how to relate to people, and have eye contact with people, |
| 1:37.0 | and somehow technology would deprive them of human relationships. |
| 1:42.0 | You've been hearing some of the parents that we got together to talk about their worries, |
| 1:46.5 | about raising smart and confident kids in the digital age. |
| 1:51.0 | And all they want, all any of us want, is for our kids to find balance, |
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