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I think we all know it, and we've said it here on this show before, that phones are addictive

because that's what they're supposed to be. They've been, you know, hijacked, basically.

Technology is there, and it's been used, and we just rely on constant notifications. We rely on

that little ping that we get, the vibration on your wrist if it's connected to a watch.

But, you know, when you're on the phone too long, you're just not looking at people.

You're not looking at things the way you need to be in a healthy world.

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting team.

And we're going to hear now from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly,

a little clip in which Jim Daly spoke with Arlene Pelican about why it's critical to be intentional

to replace screen time with real relationships.

And in that context, again, that 13-year-old girl,

I'm thinking about that loneliness trap.

The irony is as parents, I think we see them connected, chatting with friends, posting,

cute pictures.

You rationalize as the parent, oh, that's good, they have friends.

But again, the inverse is what's happening.

The loneliness index is going up for those kids. Explain if researchers

are finding out why. How could they be so highly connected and so lonely and increasingly

lonely in that kind of context? Yeah, they did a research thing of 33,000 students in college.

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