This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to PDACast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 397 for February 15th, 2018.

We're calling this one the Wintertime Blues.

I want to welcome you to the program.

It is mid-February, and we are definitely in the thick of winter here in Central Ohio.

Although, we got a little break today.

It's like 60 degrees, but it's still rainy and cloudy.

And up until now, it's been pretty cold, and there's still cold weather coming.

It's not spring yet, although all of us wish that it were spring.

But the other thing about mid-February means that the Olympics are on, and we have been, we've been kind of binge-watching the Olympics in our house.

Now, I know as a pediatrician, you know, my usual advice is do some active things

with the family, you know, face-to-face, dinner together, play some games, get outside if it's warm

enough for you. And really, you know, try to stay away from the screen time as much as you can,

especially since we're on screen so much just with daily living and technology

and schoolwork and work work. So when you do have family time together, you know, spend it doing

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