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Ep. 129: How Do I Get My Kid Off His Smartphone?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Structure Time That's No Longer Just for Producing Income?

Parents are grappling with the negative impact of unrestricted smart phone use in early adolescence. I don't think most 13 year olds can, from a psychological or social perspective, handle being given that sort of unrestricted access to the internet. Peer pressure is an issue here too. You could be wrong here and it could be another cost on those social curves,. But i think that's where we're getting to this inflection point. We need to grapple with what do we want our kids to do when they grow up?

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