Raising Kids in a Digital World with Meta's Allison Hartnett
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Dear Media
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
How do you raise kids around screens without totally freaking out?
Allison is joined by Allison Hartnett, Director of Product Management for Youth at Meta, to talk about building healthy tech habits from the start. From managing toddler screen time to preparing for the teen years, they break down how parents can feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
Plus, a look at Instagram’s Teen Accounts and the tools designed to help families create safer, more age-appropriate experiences online.
For access to more helpful tools and expert guidance, parents can visit https://familycenter.meta.com
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:03.9 | Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman and |
| 0:09.3 | that woman is me. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host, Alison Kooch. |
| 0:12.0 | And today I want to welcome my guest, another Allison. |
| 0:16.0 | She is the META's director of product management for youth and social impact. |
| 0:23.9 | Now, I have to say, I am really excited to talk to you, but I'm really early on in this because |
| 0:30.7 | my daughter's only two. But I do already feel this pressure of like, how do I protect my child |
| 0:35.4 | without totally freaking out? So before we get into all |
| 0:38.2 | the tools, can you tell us what led you into youth and social impact work at Meta? Yeah. Yeah, |
| 0:44.1 | I mean, for me, it really centers. And I'm also a mom and my kids are not actually teens yet. |
| 0:50.1 | They're not users of our products yet. I have a 10-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl. |
| 0:56.6 | And so I'm a little further along in the journey and they're definitely using technology. |
| 1:01.7 | But yeah, for me, I was always really interested. I've been working in tech and media for a long time. |
| 1:07.6 | I worked at Meta for almost nine years prior to working on youth. I actually |
| 1:13.9 | worked, led our creators product for Instagram. So really fun to be talking to you from a |
| 1:19.6 | creator's perspective also. And I've just, I've always been prior to that, I worked in media. |
| 1:25.2 | I've always been really interested in like what the, |
| 1:28.3 | what new media can mean and how much more freedom it gets people |
| 1:32.1 | and it gets so much opportunity to people. |
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