The Darker Side Of Screen Time

Life Kit

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Emotional outbursts. Lost sleep. These are signs that your kids are spending too much time with digital devices. Here's what you can do about it.

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0:00.0	Jeff and Ellie live in suburban Chicago.
0:02.0	Hi, how's it going?
0:03.2	Good, how are you?
0:03.8	Good, I'm on yet.
0:04.6	Hi, I'm in Nice to meet you.
0:05.8	What a beautiful house.
0:06.9	Thank you.
0:07.6	They've free kids.
0:09.0	Nathan, who's five, and super into Dinosaur shows.
0:12.4	Dino, Trek, and Dino, Dana.
0:15.6	That's the manager.
0:16.6	Trek's at the bench right, sorry.
0:18.5	Benji, his 11, and really into Nintendo.
0:21.3	I also like Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
0:23.4	Now Super X-Ed 4 to come out.
0:25.4	It's the best Smash game basically, according to everyone.
0:29.7	An Abby, who's 14, and pretty into memes.
0:32.6	It's a quote that says, use the force, Harry.
0:35.7	And it says it's by Gandalf, but the picture of John Luke
0:38.6	the card on the side.
0:40.4	Jeff and Ellie asked us not to use their last names
0:43.0	to protect their privacy.
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