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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

What Screen Time Does to Our Kids (and What We Can Do about It)

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Computers, laptops, tablets, phones, iWhatever, big screen T.V.s, portable players – not to mention the infinite libraries of apps, Netflix, Hulu and (of course) the Internets. Let’s face it. All those Baby Einstein DVDs seem quaint compared to everything a kid could do on a smart phone these days.

With their phones, computers, T.V.s and other gadgets, teenagers’ tech use might be well over eleven hours a day of screen time, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report. The average 8-year-old isn’t far behind with eight hours of screen usage.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)

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0:30.3

The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson.

0:36.6

And is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

0:42.7

Hey Primal Pals, Leslie Clinky here, author of Paleo Girl, and today on the podcast I'll be

0:49.1

narrating an article by Mark Sisson.

0:52.6

What Screen Time does to our kids and what we can do about it.

0:57.8

For many parents, I know it's one of those prime examples of what I thought I'd never do

1:02.4

before I had kids versus what I ended up doing after I actually had them.

1:07.2

After all, most of us were children of those pre-tech boom years. Some of us were even pre-TV.

1:13.2

We never had all the gadgets when we were growing up. Instead, we spent hours of childhood being

1:18.8

bored and finding creative solutions that had no connection to a power outlet. Our tech toys

1:24.5

were the likes of light bright or walkie-talkies, if we were lucky, not a $600

1:29.1

app-loaded tablet. Summer road trips, that's what Madlibs were for. What a different landscape today.

1:36.9

Computers, laptops, tablets, phones, I-whatever, big screen TVs, portable players, not to mention the infinite libraries of apps,

1:46.4

Netflix, Hulu, and of course the internet. Let's face it, all those baby Einstein DVDs

1:52.8

seem quaint compared to everything a kid could do on a smartphone these days. With their phones,

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