Parenting Unfiltered: Is Your Teen’s Cell Phone Use a Problem?
Cat & Nat Unfiltered
Cat & Nat
5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
SUMMER 2025 RERUNS
We are officially at the half way point of our summer and bringing you another one of your favourite episodes! Every day, there’s another headline about kids and phones — how screen time is hurting their mental health, their ability to focus, and even how we parent. There’s clearly a problem. But we’re on our phones too. And sometimes handing over a screen is the only way to get through dinner, a grocery run, or just one quiet moment. We’re not proud of it, but it’s the reality for so many of us. We’re parenting through something we never dealt with as kids, with no guide and a whole lot of guilt. Will the next generation of parents, armed with all this research and hindsight, do things differently?
We are officially at the half way point of our summer and bringing you another one of your favourite episodes! Every day, there’s another headline about kids and phones — how screen time is hurting their mental health, their ability to focus, and even how we parent. There’s clearly a problem. But we’re on our phones too. And sometimes handing over a screen is the only way to get through dinner, a grocery run, or just one quiet moment. We’re not proud of it, but it’s the reality for so many of us. We’re parenting through something we never dealt with as kids, with no guide and a whole lot of guilt. Will the next generation of parents, armed with all this research and hindsight, do things differently?
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