The danger of social media and kids w/ Dr. Alison Yeung

Mama Knows

Cloud10

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Get your BEST YOUNGEST LIPS EVER with citybeauty.com with code MAMAKNOWS for 15% off. There is so much information out there on the effects of social media it is hard to know where to start. If you are like me and want to make sure you are setting your kids (and yourself!) up for success with boundaries and conversations around social media with your kids, then this episode is for you! What are the effects you have seen from social media on kids? I am a data girl so give me all your data! I want to delay when my child is involved with social media, but their friends are on it, my child feels left out, and so now I feel like the bad parent. Do you have words of advice? What can I do now to prepare my kids for the future where social media is so prevalent? And for the parents who's kids are already in the thick of social media, what can they do right now for their kids? Most of my listeners and followers want to know when is the appropriate time to allow your child access to a smartphone or social media? How do you know when they are ready? Dr. Alison Yeung is a family physician from Ontario, Canada. Over the past decade, she has come to recognize that children are struggling in unprecedented ways. After recognizing the role that screens and social media are playing in their presentation, she began to dive into the research on this topic. Feeling that there is an undeniable association, she felt compelled to speak out. She has created an Instagram account to educate and empower parents to change the narrative, and has also worked with local schools to help implement cellphone policies by educating staff and parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have an intense beer around social media and cell phones for my children like when it's time for them to get those things.
0:15.1	I don't want it to happen ever. As someone who works in social media and spends a lot of time in my phone,
0:21.0	it's something that can be so amazing but also something that is so
0:24.6	scary and even at my age nearing 40 I'm like this is a scary place and our kids are growing up in this era of social media and
0:36.2	cell phones and kids as young as five years old are scrolling Tik-Toc and to me that
0:42.1	blows my mind this is a judgment-free zone but I wanted to
0:46.8	have an episode about social media and cell phones that is very data-driven so
0:52.0	today I'm talking to Dr. Allison Young who is a
0:55.1	family physician and a mom who is passionate about sharing information of the
1:00.3	effects of screens and social media on kids.
1:03.7	I'm so excited for you to hear this episode.
1:05.7	I really hope that we can all come together as a community
1:09.8	and help the next generation out,
1:12.0	the next generation being our kids, or even if your kid is already in the midst of social media and cell phones, there are things that we talk about in this episode that can help you navigate that. So let's dive in.
1:29.0	Oh my gosh, Allison, I am so excited to chat with you today. I've been literally counting down the days for this interview because I'm so passionate about this topic. I've talked about it on my social media before too, but we're going to talk about kids and cell phones and social media and the effects that it has on them and I feel like this is such a
1:50.4	Tricky topic because our kids like my kids are three and five and they are the first
1:56.8	generation actually I don't know is a Jen Z was the first generation with screens
2:01.2	right like Jen Z was the first generation with screens right like Jen-Z was the first generation that
2:04.1	grew up with all the smartphones and the technology yeah okay well for me it feels
2:11.8	like my kids are it's like so normal to just like give them a
2:16.8	tablet give them a screen and I work on social media so for me I see the effects of social media so differently than a
2:26.7	general person. I'm a 35 year old woman and I'm bullied daily I am torn apart daily on social media and I see such toxicity and not even just the bullying like I see things like my own mental health taking a huge hit because there's this constant state of needing to keep up this
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