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How to Get Your Kids Off Their Phones

How to Get Your Kids Off Their Phones

Update: 2025-08-19
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Social scientist and cultural critic Jonathan Haidt recently wrote an important article entitled, “What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones.” In this episode, Brett & Erin discuss Haidt’s piece and his research findings about kids, smartphones and the new phenomenon of a phone-based childhood. They also discuss how unstructured free time is key in getting kids off their phones and providing them with a healthy upbringing.


Read the original article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/kids-smartphones-play-freedom/683742/ 


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How to Get Your Kids Off Their Phones

How to Get Your Kids Off Their Phones

Brett and Erin Kunkle