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Welcome to the Tutor Dixon podcast. I'm Tutor Dixon and it is great to have you tuning

into the podcast. My guest today is going to help us all. He's going to help us learn how to

raise teenagers in this new world that is completely different from the world we grew up in as kids.

I have with me the author of Raising Healthy Teenagers Tom Kirsting. Welcome to the podcast. Thank

you for joining us. Thank you for having me Tutor. Yes, so tell us the secrets because I as we

discussed, I have one teenager one preteen well two three preteens. I guess I have to call them

now and so our house is kind of terrifying to me because I am not used to the whole

children with devices. I grew up with my Ite's phone attached to the wall. My mom could pick it up

and listen to what I was saying and know everything I was doing and there were no videos or anything

attached to it. So what are the secrets that I don't know because this is not my world?

Like I grew up in the same type of household trust me yet. So yeah, so you know I wrote this is

the book here raising healthy teenagers just came out in February. The previous book I wrote a few

years ago is called Disconnected all that screen time and stuff. So I kind of piggybacked off of

that and you know raising healthy teenagers is appropriate for parents who have younger kids as

well. So there's no need to become teenagers no matter what you do. There's no real secret.

All right, so here the problem is in our society now our kids are being raised more by their devices

in front of their hands than they are from their parents. Okay, when I think about myself growing

dinner in the cursing household was mandatory 530 every night parents had to yell out the front door

and come get a set. Nowadays when you look at the way kids are living plays down 70% okay compared

to previous generations. Kids are cooped up inside so it's not just the devices it's also you

know the lack of existing in their natural habitat which is outside. But then it this get worse

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