Well screen addiction is a very real thing and even just saying screen addiction you're

probably thinking my kid but what about you? I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny

who heads up our parenting team here at Focus on the Family.

And Danny, screen addiction in kids and adults.

Have you struggled at all personally in your family?

Well, and let's keep in mind screen addiction is really an addiction to the effect, the feelings you get from the screens.

What it's satisfying? a potential sense of belonging, a

potential sense of competence, really a false sense of those, a false sense of

being valued by others, a false sense of connection, a lot of counterfeits, but it makes sense

that we would be attracted to it. It's designed that way. And so instead of going to shame or, hey're addicted or you're addicted we can look at the fact that there are a lot of different needs that everyone carries every single day.

And one of the interesting things that I've noticed in my son and

he'd be really open with this as we're talking about it, he'd be sharing this. And that is that

since he was little he was attracted to some form of screen.

So we'd go to a restaurant and immediately his face would go towards the television and

he'd want to watch it and he was just attracted to it. then he tried with a Nintendo DS for a little while

we were wanting to try things out and give him some opportunity to do that and you could tell

that it was hard for him to say no to the urge to want to play and so it was good for us to learn that

about him early on.

Our daughter didn't have that issue.

So when my son got a phone and he was going towards more of the 18-ish range, he started to, actually

17-ish John, he was starting to play a few of the games the app games and he he did share he said

dad I notice how it pulls me in and I've had moments where I've had too much time and so we

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