What Happens When You Take Away Your Kids' Devices
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
We have no idea what we're up against when it comes to the longterm effects of technology. With the viral popularity of games like Fortnite and gaming disorder being declared a mental health condition, video game addiction has become a hot topic. That's why we had Cam Adair on The Dad Edge for the past two episodes to talk about how devices affect our brains and what we can do to mitigate unhealthy habits when it comes to our digital lives.
Cam's interview inspired me to make some changes in my own home when it came to devices. With four young boys, it was a challenge. At first, life without tablets and video games was miserable for all of us. I also realized that I was part of the problem and that I had to work on my habits to set an example to my family.
Listen to what happens when you take away your kids' devices and how it can change your family life for the better.
For the show notes and links mentioned in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/thursday123.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
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| 0:36.8 | of Thursday throwdown. |
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| 0:40.1 | And for the past couple weeks, |
| 0:41.9 | we've really focused on video game addiction. |
| 0:45.6 | And this has been such a hot topic, especially since, I mean, it's always been a hot topic, |
| 0:51.3 | but since Fortnite has come out, I know there's a lot of people who are like a lot of kids who are like binging on Fort Knight and sometimes even your school popularity if you're a kid is based on your success rate. of your |
| 1:03.2 | success rate at Fortnite. So we've heard a lot of rumblings about Fortnite, |
| 1:08.7 | Destiny, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, I'm missing a lot of them. |
| 1:14.8 | HitMan, I don't even know, but a lot of different video games. |
| 1:18.8 | And also how kids are like so into their iPads and that kind of thing or even kids into their phones like everybody's in their phone and so for the past couple weeks so we two weeks ago last week we had camadir come on and do a podcast with us on how to break video game |
| 1:35.2 | addiction. |
| 1:36.4 | And then this past Monday I launched the Q&A with the alliance with him and that brought up all kinds of different |
| 1:45.1 | different questions and different different topics and we've been talking about |
| 1:49.8 | this a lot lately and I think it's much needed and I think the education around it is we have no idea what we're up against. |
| 1:57.6 | No idea what we're up against. Neither did I had no clue. I mean I knew it was kind of bad, right? But I had no idea how bad it really was, but now that I know how bad it is, we've been making some adjustments in our house. |
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