What if screen time isn't the villain?

About this episode

Jenny and Greg discuss screen time, its implications for parenting, and the latest guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In this episode, Jenny and Greg Swan pull up their real Screen Time stats on mic, break down the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newest guidance, and watch the Toy Story 5 trailer to ask the obvious question: are we really doing “tech bad” again? We talk about why we don’t feel guilty, why we’ve never been a “no screens” family, and why restriction without relationship doesn’t teach kids how to live in the world they’re actually growing up in. This episode is for: parents who are tired of screen-time shame, anyone raising kids in a world built to capture attention, Toy Story adults who felt either very excited or personally attacked by that trailer, and people who want something more realistic than “just set limits.”

People in this episode

Hosts: Jenny Swan, Greg Swan

Topics covered

• screen time
• parenting
• technology
• child development
• media consumption

Keywords

• screen time
• parenting
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Toy Story 5
• technology
• media consumption
• child development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Academy of Pediatrics

Books & works: Toy Story 5

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