Teens, Screens, and Mental Health - Jayson Gaddis & Ellen Boeder - 507
Relationship School Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.6 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Jayson and Ellen delve into the complex relationship between teens, screens, and mental health. Is it okay to use screens to help kids calm down? Are teens becoming more anxious? At what age should children have their own cell phones? What societal changes are needed to protect the mental health and well-being of children and teens? How can you effectively implement boundaries at home? Tune in to find the answers to these and many more questions.
Timestamps:
- 2:35 - Why screen time matters
- 5:50 - The Anxious Generation
- 9:00 - Using screens to help kids calm down
- 17:00 - The problem with content
- 21:00 - The problem with texting
- 23:30 - Setting boundaries
- 30:30 - Haidt's four recommendations
- 33:30 - Jayson and Ellen's recommendations
- 43:00 - Action steps
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| 0:00.0 | However much time you're spending on interacting with a screen, that's time you're not spending interacting with other human beings. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey Jason Gattis here. Welcome to the Relationship School |
| 0:16.0 | podcast. This show focuses on human behavior, psychology, and |
| 0:19.6 | relationships. It's for people who are into growth and development. It's for people who wrestle with the paradox of self-acceptance and self-mastery. |
| 0:27.0 | If you want to gain more self-awareness, have a better relationship with yourself, and more fulfilling relationships with others, this show is for you. |
| 0:34.3 | It's my belief and my experience that your life satisfaction, your health and well-being and your |
| 0:39.8 | longevity will be determined by how much confidence you have in your most important relationships, including the one with yourself. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, honey. |
| 0:49.0 | Hi. How you doing today? |
| 0:51.0 | I'm doing just fine. How are you? I'm great because you're sitting really close. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, it's nice. |
| 1:00.0 | So today we're going to talk about teens and |
| 1:02.6 | mental health and phones and screens and social media. |
| 1:05.6 | We're going to just dip our toes in that water, yes. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, so this is for parents and educators and soon to be parents and you know anyone that |
| 1:17.6 | carries about young people. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, anyone that cares and wants to understand what's going on a little bit. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, so apparently teens spend, you know, |
| 1:26.5 | seven hours and 22 minutes a day on on average on a screens, |
| 1:32.0 | which is nuts. I know. Let's just start there like what? I know. It's it's like a third of the day. |
| 1:40.4 | And then you spend a third sleeping and then the other third is like eating and school. I don't even know. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah. |
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