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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Social psychologist and best-selling author Jonathan Haidt (“The Anxious Generation”) sits down with Michelle and Craig to talk about the damage that smartphones and social media are doing to our kids. Jon lays out the four ways you can tackle the problems kids are having with their phones, create a play-based childhood, and resist giving kids access to social media before they’re ready. Plus, this week’s listener asks how to deal with screen addiction.
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0:00.0 | My daughter was described by her third grade teacher as a giant ball of sunshine. |
0:05.0 | And she still is. |
0:06.5 | I love that. |
0:07.4 | And I never let her on social media. |
0:10.0 | She's 15. |
0:11.0 | She wants Snapchat. |
0:12.1 | All her friends are on it. |
0:13.0 | I have not let her have it. |
0:14.8 | But I hear so many stories from parents whose daughters were also giant balls of sunshine. |
0:20.1 | And then they got Instagram in fifth, sixth, seventh grade. And then they stopped being giant balls of sunshine. And then they got Instagram in fifth, |
0:22.2 | six, seventh grade, and then they stopped being giant balls of sunshine. And they're anxious, |
0:27.0 | and they're comparing themselves, and they're focused on their skin and their hair and their bodies. |
0:32.8 | So I think a lot of parents can recognize this. Even if it's not in every single family, it's in something like every third family. |
0:42.0 | So everybody knows a family that has a daughter, especially, who got on social media, became depressed, anxious, self-conscious. |
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1:00.5 | Hi, Craig Robinson. How are you? |
1:02.9 | I'm terrific. How are you? |
1:04.6 | Good. You're looking pretty even. |
1:07.9 | That's because I'm wearing makeup. |
1:10.1 | I think it's good now you know lights camera |
1:14.3 | action you know you need to have be blended just like the rest of us. I am very self-conscious. |
1:21.4 | I mean I've worn makeup before you know. Have you tell me more about that. On what occasion. |
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