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The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

We’re All Doomed: The Screen Generation

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the really very crunchy podcast.

0:03.7

Bonus episode.

0:04.7

Emily, I have a question for you.

0:07.8

Short of being Amish, can a family go completely screen free?

0:13.8

What's your opinion?

0:15.7

Completely screen free?

0:18.0

Even the parents?

0:20.3

Well, okay. I don't think you can be completely screen free.

0:23.5

For two seconds in and she's nitpicking what I'm saying, you know what I mean, mostly screen

0:28.7

free.

0:29.6

Like, you mean like basically what we do?

0:34.2

In today's society, does it make sense for a family to go screen free? Yes. Actually,

0:41.9

we aren't screen free. We let our kids watch a couple things on Friday nights, but that's it.

0:49.2

Yeah. That's really it. So I, and I don't feel like it would be the biggest deal to give it up. It would hurt

0:56.8

our older son's feelings because he really loves that. Yeah. But he's really the reason that we

1:04.5

very early on cut back on screens. It was early in the crunchy journey. Yeah.

1:11.2

We were doing some screen time.

1:13.3

We never thought it was...

1:14.3

Not much.

1:14.8

Like 30 minutes a day or something.

1:16.7

Yeah.

1:17.3

Yeah.

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