The Battle For Our Kids Attention with Richard Capriola

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram are the most popular social media platforms for our kids today, and especially our teenagers. We are the first generation of parents that are confronted with the battle for our kids' time, their attention, and even their mental health. My guest today gives us a deep dive look at the impact of these social media platforms and what they are doing to our kids' lives, their mental health, and how we can be best armed and prepared to guide them as parents.

My guest today is Richard Capriola. He spent 11 years working as an addictions counselor for Menninger Clinic in Houston Texas before retiring in 2019. Menninger Clinic is one of the top ten psychiatric hospitals in the United States and specializes in the assessment, stabilization and treatment of adults and adolescents with substance abuse and psychiatric disorders. During his tenure there he worked in the Adolescent Treatment program and the adult Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment and Stabilization program. Working closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and nurses he was responsible for comprehensive assessments and individual and group counseling with patients diagnosed with substance use disorders.

His job with Menninger Clinic was a second career. Prior to joining Menninger, he spent 30 years working for the Illinois State Board of Education where he was a lobbyist, communications and external relations manager and special assistant to the State Superintendent of Education. After retiring from the State of Illinois in 2004 he worked as a mental health crisis counselor in central Illinois until he joined Menninger in 2008.

Now retired, he lives with his wife in Katy, Texas, a suburb of Houston. He enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and spending time with family who live in Texas and on both coasts. He has one son, two stepchildren and four grandchildren.

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0:00.0	TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram are the most popular social media platforms for our kids today
0:05.6	and especially our teenagers. We are the first generation of parents that are confronted with the
0:10.8	battle for our kids' time, their attention and even their mental health. My guest today gives us
0:16.3	a deep dive look at the impact of these social media platforms and what they are doing to our kids'
0:21.6	lives, their mental health and how we can be best armed and prepared to guide them as parents.
0:30.1	Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, leaders of families
0:36.9	and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of fathers but the next generation
0:42.8	as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked in their favor because of
0:48.2	the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. We are here to change the world,
0:54.4	we are here to change relationships, we are here to positively disrupt this generation of fathers
1:00.2	so no man goes to their grave with regret. We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with
1:06.4	razor-focused intention, passion, purpose and direction. We are the Dad Edge and we're here to
1:15.5	change the game.
1:30.0	Gentlemen, welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I am your host and founder of
1:35.3	this podcast show and movement and yes, we are talking about this topic today. The addictive
1:42.4	nature of TikTok, of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, all these things that are just
1:52.4	vying for the attention of our kids and especially our teenager. The last time I had my guest on
1:58.2	today, he sort of left this little teaser at the end of the podcast that he was also an expert
2:03.6	in this field as far as social media platforms and the mental health impact to our youth.
2:09.6	He obviously left this out there and we had a lot of emails come through for men asking like,
2:16.8	hey, can you please have him back on to talk about this topic? I do have Richard Capriola back
2:22.8	today. If you didn't catch his first show, he came on. It was back in April of this past year
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