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The Mom Room

The Effects of Smartphones on Kids, with Dr. Alison Yeung

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

EP347. There is a mental health epidemic among teens today and two contributing factors are smartphones and social media. Dr. Alison Yeung regularly sees young patients in her office who are struggling with smartphone addiction. How did it get so bad? What can parents do to prevent this from happening to their child? Don't miss this incredibly important episode! RENEE REINA www.themomroom.com Instagram: @themomroompodcast | @thereneereina TikTok: @thereneereina Facebook Community Youtube: Renee Reina- The Mom Room Podcast Dr. ALISON YEUNG: @thesmartphoneeffect SPONSORS KiwiCo. Earth Breeze. One Skin. Delavie Sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is back to school season and you know what that means.

0:11.1

Lots of items are heading to school and they're not always necessarily coming back.

0:15.2

They're either headed to the lost and found, they're left on the school bus, their friends

0:18.9

take them home thinking they're theirs.

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trusted by parents nationwide. Welcome to Tuesday's episode. This is a dozy. It is a topic that

1:21.0

maybe you're going to roll your eyes at at first. Maybe you're going to be defensive. Because honestly, it's an uncomfortable subject and it

1:31.0

feels overwhelming and it feels like there's nothing that we can do about it. But there is. And I'm

1:37.5

hoping, because my audience is mostly parents with young kids, like I would like to make a change

1:43.4

in this area before our children are of

1:47.8

the age where they're asking for a smartphone and social media accounts. So today I am speaking

1:52.7

with Dr. Allison Young. She is a family physician here in Ontario, and she has kind of developed

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