Parenting Unfiltered: Doomscrolling and Why We Do It
Cat & Nat Unfiltered
Cat & Nat
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking about doom scrolling — why we do it, why our kids do it, and how it can quietly become the way we mute feelings we don’t want to deal with. Scrolling can make you feel everything, or it can make you feel nothing at all. Either way, it pulls you out of your own life without you even noticing. At some point, your kids will need to study or focus without you taking the phone away from them, and understanding their doom-scrolling habits is important for both you and them.
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| 0:00.0 | You sent me this thing about a place where they send kids. |
| 0:04.4 | Because by the way, summer camp, a lot of them, that's detox. You're not allowed your phones. No, well, they all take it in though. Some do, yes. Some literally do not. They're like, I don't want to take my phone. I don't take my phone. So for two months, they don't have their phones. Yeah. Yeah, it's a detox camp. Tell me, how long do they go for? |
| 0:19.6 | Have we totally lost our minds that a parent's going to pay $8,000 to detox their kids from a phone? I think a desperate parent thinks that could just fix everything because I'm sure when they get home, then they won't be as addicted to it anymore. Are we just done parenting? Like, have we just tapped out and we're like, I don't want to deal with these problems anymore? Drop it like a hot. Drop like a tie. Drop like a tap. Natalie, what do I do? I hope it's giddy, giddy. Hi, guys. It's Monday. It's a Monday podcast and this is your parenting thing. And, you know, there's this clip going around right now. Mm-hmm. Oh, that's fine. |
| 0:55.2 | On social media. |
| 0:56.5 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:57.3 | That basically it's like a 20-something, maybe younger. |
| 1:00.6 | And she goes, we will be the first generation to die with more of other people's memories. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.7 | You've seen it? |
| 1:10.2 | It's everywhere, okay? |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | And they're like, oh, I disagree. And then there's that chart. It's like, this is how many days you live. This is how many days you'll be at school. This is how many days you'll be sleeping. This is how many days you'll be on your screen. This is how many days. like in there's like two days of your life. And then we have, well, I have a few things on this. First of all, I disagree with that statement. Although I can understand why some people would feel that way. I don't think it has to be that way. Now, are some kids on their screens way too much? A thousand percent. |
| 1:45.1 | Are some adults on their screens way too much? A thousand percent. Are we probably need to |
| 1:50.2 | recheck all of us and to figure it out? A thousand percent. But I just... A thousand percent. |
| 1:57.2 | I don't. Screens aren't going unless we're getting rid of screen. Okay, let's just say this. |
| 2:01.9 | Unless we're getting rid of all the screens. |
| 2:04.6 | Let's just say digital's gone. |
| 2:10.1 | Why can't we figure this out? |
| 2:13.1 | Then I actually, there's one person who's like a leader in the space. |
| 2:16.8 | I hate him. I don't even want to follow him anymore because it's like a leader in the space. I hate him. |
| 2:17.8 | I don't even want to follow him anymore because it's like they're telling us problems that there's no solutions. |
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