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What we're talking about tech and phones and how extended time on a screen and social media in particular will affect

your child's development, their brain growth. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads

up our parenting team, and we're going to hear a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

Jim spoke with Arlene Pelican about the data. Arlene, welcome back.

So much fun to be here. Always good to have you. And last time we did kind of do a little shock to the

system of parents to say, here's the data. Let's go back and just recap some of that data so that

parents can be mindful of what it's telling us.

You know, the statistics are not supportive of too much screen time.

That's the bottom line.

I mentioned that the Surgeon General now is saying they want to have warning labels basically

up there on the screen when kids and adults enter into social media platforms, that should

be a signal that they want to put a warning up.

It's about time, actually.

I've watched some of those congressional hearings where the owners of those platforms,

whether it's Facebook or you name it, Snapchat, TikTok, they're getting grilled by the

Congress for the data they have that shows how

they're wiring kids today, hitting them with dopamine, with the addiction of staying engaged

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