Everywhere you look in any public setting and in so many private settings within your

home people are glued to the phone there's no engagement with the surroundings whatsoever. It happened to me today.

We get in the car, I'm taking one of my kids to his job, and we get about four miles down the road and out comes the earbuds and in they go and he

starts listening to something. I'm like hey could we just like talk we've been gone

for less than five minutes we've've got another 10. Why don't we talk?

U. But the phone. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team and

Danny. How do those cell phones grab us and divert our attention so effectively

and it is they're designed that way right that's that's how they were think that was really behind the design of phones? Well, let's get into people's rise and separate them.

Unfortunately, it was it was to to gain people's undivided attention all the time.

Right, just come back, come back, come back.

And they created the tool that does that.

It definitely captured our attention.

And neuroscientists were involved in it

a psychologist unfortunately using the science of the mind that's right and it's

interesting to watch it as and we've talked about this before. There is an addiction to these devices

and at varying degrees. And parents and kids are just as guilty on this and I think what we need to look at

is how do we approach it in our very own home. We can lament everyone else out there and

in society and there are ways to either engage or not engage

with technology outside our home but within our home we get the opportunity to set

boundaries and limits.

And sometimes that involves conflict, sometimes it involves discomfort, sometimes it involves

going into boredom and having to find energy to do other things.

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