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Hi, my name is Peter Rapelo and my tip is since I'm spending a lot of time at home,

I've been thinking about the people in my life who needed to have a little bit of encouragement

or a bright spot on their day. My sister long takes care of her kids and I'm thinking about sending

her a note for some flowers. She really needs encouragement and I think she didn't enjoy that.

So while I have this extra time, I'm using it to think about other people and what I can do for

them and help them to make their day a little better. Can you hear me right today?

I'm on the Kaminets and this is npr's LifeKit. We're all using screens more than ever now.

Zoom, happy hours, facetime play dates, virtual workouts. It's great to be able to stay connected

but it's so easy to feel the burnout too. We're not just beds sitting on bodies. We're

have a whole body that needs to be taken care of as well and it's important to take breaks from

our screens once in a while. So we checked in with Katherine Price. She's the author of How to

Break Up With Your Phone and she's offering resources for finding a healthier balance with screens

right now and she says one way to start is to recognize that we use our screens for lots of

different things. So recognizing that there's certain types of screen time that is necessary right

now for our work as adults. There's certain types of screen time that we're using to entertain

ourselves. There's device use that's geared towards helping us connect with other people.

But the most important thing she says is the quality of the screen time. Once you start thinking about

it more as a question of quality rather than quantity I think it takes some of the artificial

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