Podcast: Tai Asks Why (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How much screen time is too much?
Pub date: 2021-02-17

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Science podcast hosted by a teenager. This episode is about screen time, and the host's age — he's in his early teens — provides a useful perspective beyond the usual adult-focused discussions of this topic. He interviews his own friends about the way screen time is handled in their households ("Thursday was my favourite day because I was allowed to play Angry Birds for ten minutes!") and also asks experts about the evidence that too much time with their devices is bad for children. The pandemic, of course, has shifted this debate very quickly

Tai and all of his friends are in a constant war with their parents over one big thing — screen time. For years, their parents have been telling them that screen time is bad and needs to be limited. But is it really? Tai finds out.

In this episode Tai talks to: - Kara Bagot, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine - Madeleine George, psychologist and analyst at RTI International - Jenny Odell, writer and artist, author of How to Do Nothing.

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