Screen Time: The Great Debate

Hey everyone, it's Samantha and Jessica here, and in this episode, we're diving into the controversial topic of screen time! As moms with kids of different ages, we know that managing screen time can be a challenge. We chat about our personal experiences, from dealing with our kids' obsession with gaming and social media to finding a balance between educational and entertainment screen time.

We also reminisce about our own childhood experiences with technology (remember Game Boys and Nokia phones?) and how much things have changed. It's crazy to think about how far technology has come and how it's now a huge part of our daily lives, both for us and our kids.

Throughout the episode, we share our thoughts on setting limits, using parental controls, and being flexible when needed. We also touch on the challenges of managing screen time during school and the importance of family time without screens.

So join us for a laid-back, honest conversation about navigating the world of screen time as parents. Whether you're a strict no-screen household or a bit more lenient, we hope you can relate and pick up some useful tips along the way. Remember, there's no one-size-fits-all approach - it's all about finding what works best for you and your family!

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Transcript

Screen Time Challenges and Solutions

Speaker 1 0:00

Do you really want to go take that, or she just have it for a little longer? So you just, yeah, having it set up is much better and you know the Apple products there's always there's things built in for it, there's tons of apps that do it. I mean, there's always something that you can work through. I mean Taylor in her computer. That was a little bit more challenging, but I did figure that all out, although I'm always tweaking it for her, because it just depends on the day. You know, some days she's got to do things early on, some days she doesn't and she's gonna do something later.

Speaker 1 0:33

So I have to, you know, change her little. You know time, that block that she can have on there to do her Minecraft and building and stuff. But I mean it's, you just have to be flexible and it's. I wish I could just say, okay, like there probably is something out there for a computer, I just haven't found it yet. I like every day she can have like a two-hour block of time on this and then, when it's done, Hi everyone, and welcome to a brand new episode of she's Got it Together.

Speaker 2 1:07

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Speaker 3 1:10

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Speaker 3 1:18

So grab your favorite drink, get comfy and let's dive into today's topic. Hey guys, so we are gonna talk about screen time. I know that can be a very controversial topic depends on, like, your parenting style, your belief system, all that stuff. So screen time it can be a little bit of a touchy subject, whether you, you know, are like okay with screen time, our anti-screen time. But today we're just gonna dive in and see where we go.

Speaker 1 1:55

Yeah, I think so. I think there's a balance in the act for this. I think there's a purpose for screen time, but I also think too much is not a good thing. I mean there's sometimes that we need to plop them down in front of screens. You know, even as they're, they're young. You know, infants just get their attention for a little bit so we can get a few things done. And as I get older and you just need a moment of silence, it's sometimes the game your sanity yes it's beneficial to let them be on their iPad or their computer or whatever.

Speaker 1 2:33

I think personally in our house right now, with having the older kids, the teenagers, I think the biggest thing that I find is challenging is the use of two screens at once, and by this, yeah, I mean Taylor likes to have the TV on, like YouTube running, and she likes to be on another electronic, whether it's her computer background noise or something.

Speaker 1 3:00

Yeah, like playing Minecraft or on her tablet playing Roblox or something, and it frustrates the heck out of me because I don't want to hear either, for one like I just the noises like she'll watch somebody playing Minecraft on the TV, and the squealing and the oh, the just all.

Speaker 3 3:21

Of it is just almost like you want her just to be on one and then, if she's on her iPod or iPad, yes, have her headphones in.

Speaker 1 3:29

So you don't have to hear a thing anymore, am I?

Speaker 3 3:31

dating myself.

Speaker 1 3:37

I know, and I just I guess because that's not a thing that I would have ever done, like we just didn't do right, we never, we didn't watch videos we didn't watch YouTube. Youtube was on the thing for us, but I guess, like her complaint to me or her, you know explanation is that she wants to watch the bill so she can build it or, you know, get some ideas.

Managing Screen Time for Kids

Speaker 3 4:00

She just knew the TV. Does she have to have the TV on?

Speaker 1 4:03

oh, she's got a volume because it's part of like what makes it interesting and fun and you know, like it's just it's got to have the whole mojo going on for her. But it's, yeah, it's kind of annoying and she's usually got her headphones on one ear so she can hear the TV, but then she can also hear computer through and through she is like she wants to be a professional gamer. That's her, it's well.

Speaker 3 4:31

That's the other edge of this too it's like okay, so she's very interested in games, gaming and she's good at it potential. She is very good at it and she's got, like this amazing thought process engineer, like you know, and so this could be a potential career for her, so that it's not something that you and granted she's nine, but I mean, you don't want to like, stifle up career choice.

Speaker 1 4:58

She was never done. She's ten, but she never wanted to be nine, remember she's, that's right.

Speaker 3 5:03

That's why I didn't get her a car for nine. She doesn't like the number nine. Yeah, I keep forgetting her. And Hayden like grew up all of a sudden. I know another year I've been saying Hayden's 14, she's 15, so yeah, I know it's like I forgot this whole last year, but again, don't trust my pregnancy brain, post-ordering, but again like that's like a whole other side of it is she's seeing this as like something she likes to do.

Speaker 1 5:27

It's a skill set for her.

Speaker 3 5:29

Right, right. So you want to encourage that, but in like a healthy way, Moderation still and moderation. So it's like, how do you manage like this screen time, like with your household, like how do you? Say okay this is enough time. This is too much time. Is there a deadline?

Speaker 1 5:45

Try to limit before bed, like that's one of the biggest things, because she doesn't that's, you know the screen. It's like that blue light deal, like she won't wear blue light glasses and all that stuff and I don't know if they help her enough the way that she stares at a screen. I mean she stares at a screen. So we try to just limit it before bed, at least an hour or so.

Speaker 3 6:07

When she's at school. During the day, too, she is.

Speaker 1 6:10

Yeah, she's at school and she has to make sure, you know, when she gets home. She's got a couple chores, she's got to get those done. She's got to make sure their homework's done, obviously dinner time and things like that.

Speaker 3 6:21

So there's, you know it breaks, so only so much time yeah. I guess more in the summer could be like when you really have to like monitor it when she's home full time and like it's like what do I do?

Speaker 1 6:33

You just can't sit on your iPad and side all day. She sneaks in the morning, like in the on the weekends in the morning. We'll think she's like sleeping in and she'll be on it in her bed.

Speaker 3 6:42

She just quietly gets it all together and you almost have to like have it out of her room then. Yes, like a designated, like station, so it's like monitored, like you can't just like get on it in your room whenever you want.

Speaker 1 6:56

Yes, we should do that. You know, most of the time we don't because it charges in there. Cause trying to find charging spots is like a huge headache.

Speaker 3 7:06

Well then, maybe that's, maybe that's a goal. Find a like universal charging spot for your stuff so that her stuff is out of her room. She can't sneak it, it's out of the room, it's not temptation there, yeah.

Speaker 1 7:19

You know, no, that that would be the smart thing to do. We could definitely do better with that, but she's um, she's sly, that girl.

Speaker 3 7:26

So, yeah, she is, she's so smart, she can just she can get away with anything that kid she really can, she's she's very stubborn, so then, like with the screen time. There's like obviously educational benefits to it too for kids. So it's not like they're just necessarily on their iPad playing games that aren't like stimulating and educational and whatever.

Speaker 1 7:48

Well, she does her school stuff on there too.

Speaker 3 7:50

Right, so that's the other part of that. I feel like now in school there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff on iPad.

Speaker 1 7:54

She'll come home with homework. It's an app she has to log into and it's Calc, it's um tracked based on you know what she does, so her teacher can see it, and it's usually math um things that she has to do and it's like a game and so I mean there's reasons that she actually has to be on it. And Hayden not so much now in high school, but she had the same thing in middle school Like she, her, I think it was called Alex she had to do all the math on there for that and she had to have so many done during the week. So she would always because she's like me, she's a procrastinator Like Thursday night she's going to have to like take two hours and do them all to get them done for Friday. But yeah, it's like I can't cut it out completely, even if I wanted to, because there's, there's, yeah, well, that's the thing it's like.

Speaker 3 8:43

now I feel like schools have taken a much more like technology friendly approach to where, like before, like when we were in like elementary school and stuff, like you had one big computer that, like your class used for something.

Speaker 1 8:57

Yeah, no, they all get their own now. You know, now they all get their own Chromebooks or iPads or whatever they are, and so like there's no books in that there's no like no-transcript. We used to have to check out our books. We got the big English book and our history and all that stuff. There's no books.

Speaker 3 9:13

They're all on this Chrome books, See and like that to me, though, like why can't you just have a?

Speaker 3 9:19

book to read. Well then, that's the thing. It's like you're Touch the pages. Everyone's like oh, like, screen time, it's too much, but then your kids have to be on it at school to finish their schoolwork. They might have to be on after school to finish their schoolwork. Now all the books are on there. So it's like you're constantly on a screen during school or at school or after school. So then I can see why parents are wanting to limit their hobbies or free time on the screen Because they're not getting a break from it.

Speaker 3 9:47

But at the same time, if that's a hobby or interest of theirs and they're playing a fun game or educational game, I mean there's definitely a time and a place for it. But it's crazy now the way that everything has changed, because before we didn't have any of that, like we never had an iPad.

Speaker 2 10:04

We had one computer for the house, if you were lucky.

Speaker 3 10:07

We had PlayStation, yeah, and we had Game.

Speaker 1 10:10

Gear, the little teeny, tiny screen and Game Boy.

Speaker 3 10:13

Game Boy. We had a Game Boy.

Speaker 1 10:15

It wasn't even in color, was it? It was just the I think ours were in color.

Speaker 3 10:19

Okay, ours were in color, but yeah, I mean it's changed so much and I feel like it's like no wonder kids don't go outside, they don't play as much as they used to, or your family time is either watching TV and people are on their phone, it's again, it's another screen. It's another screen. I mean, I remember when we were growing up, the TVs were barely on, yeah we didn't watch all the TV.

Speaker 1 10:47

It was pretty quiet or we had music on and there was no TVs in our rooms, Like now the kids have TVs in their rooms Actually they know that. He didn't watch his TV in her room. Taylor really doesn't.

Speaker 3 10:59

Yeah, yeah. We didn't have TVs in the room, we had the TVs around and the kitchen TV was turned on in the morning to watch the news or the weather or something, or we'd get home. I feel like that was the one time we really watched TV.

Speaker 3 11:12

We had a school bus and our third it was like we'd get home from school and we'd have a snack and we'd watch a couple shows in the kitchen, but that's it. Then it's like, okay, go play, go do something, do your homework, mom, I'm going to watch your soap so much. Yeah, that was really it. And I feel like if we watched a movie or something, that was like okay, movie, yeah, and that was the production.

Speaker 1 11:33

It's like a whole thing.

Speaker 3 11:34

Yeah, and I feel like the TV time was definitely not a big thing and it's not that we were outside though it was.

Speaker 1 11:44

We were playing with things, we were just playing.

Speaker 3 11:47

Yeah, we were in our room playing or we were making up a game. I feel like kids don't do that anymore.

Speaker 1 11:52

No, Not at all. I mean, the girls are constantly complaining about being bored and I don't know how they can be bored. They have so much like so much stuff. It's ridiculous. Yeah, they don't need all the stuff and I think so many kids now have that and it's just like why. I know you just kind of like where?

Speaker 3 12:14

did the like, playful, like imaginative, like kids go, and, granted, not like there are many kids that are probably still like this, but it's like just the way that like the world is now. It's like technologies everywhere, it's in everything. Everyone has a phone we didn't have like cell phones, weren't like a big thing when we were growing up, so your parents weren't on their phone like texting or playing games or whatever.

Speaker 1 12:40

They weren't cell phones really. I mean, like what, dad had a work thing.

Speaker 3 12:44

It was like that Next, the next tell, next tell. It was almost like that, yeah, and then mom had like that really old like little like a Nokia. Yeah, but it was even like when we were in high school was when, like razors came out and you could text on those. But we didn't do texting really. And like, so like the whole, the whole phone game has definitely changed a lot of things with technology, I think with families, like a family unit, because they're everywhere.

Speaker 1 13:15

Can't buy a phone. That's not a smartphone. They're, they don't, right? I don't think they exist anymore.

Speaker 3 13:20

I was hoping to get Bo a pay as you go. I don't want him to have like a cell phone, cell phone. I got you guys a pay as you go. I know, yeah, that's the he'll. Yeah, well, we got him in like eighth or ninth, going into ninth grade.

Speaker 1 13:33

I got you a couple weird little ones.

Speaker 3 13:36

But it's like you know, he doesn't need to have a phone with all these apps and all this social media stuff.

Speaker 1 13:41

Well, there's so much on it. Yeah it's too much. Now, I know it's not popular opinion.

Speaker 3 13:48

He probably will hate me, but I really don't want him to have a phone.

Speaker 1 13:50

Well, Taylor's gonna have one yet and she's having a fit because her friends do.

Speaker 3 13:53

She has nine pads. She's need one. She's ten, no.

Speaker 1 13:57

She's not having one.

Speaker 2 13:57

Who's the phone?

Speaker 3 13:58

Who are you calling? Well, her friends, who are you calling? Use the house phones.

Speaker 1 14:02

I'm her little friends, we don't have a house phone.

Speaker 2 14:06

I think I'm gonna have to get a house phone. Do you have a?

Speaker 3 14:08

house phone. Well, no, not at this house we're renting. Oh, okay, so, no, well, so, but Boda doesn't need one yet. He's one in these 15 months, but that's the other thing.

Speaker 1 14:18

On the other spectrum, of this phone, he won't be able to use it. Nobody knows the phone number. What do you mean? Nobody knows the phone numbers anymore to use a house phone.

Speaker 3 14:26

That's the thing. That's the other thing. Brett doesn't even know my phone number. I'm like I know your phone number. Why don't you know my phone number? It's literally like our M. Oh yeah, we know M perks thing.

Screen Time and Family Dynamics

Speaker 3 14:36

Yeah, and everything he doesn't know it. That's funny. But anyway, like the other side of this, like you know, because I have a 15 month old, you have a 10 and a 15 year old, so screen time for Bo looks different than screen time for your girls and like so with Bo, like I was just like I'm home working, and sometimes like I put a show on for him in the morning, like he watches bluey and has his milk, and like I just get his breakfast ready and all that stuff, and then he will usually just like start playing. He's like not paying attention to the show.

Speaker 2 15:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3 15:09

But like I'll leave it on. And then people are like, oh no, he shouldn't have any screen time until they're like five or like something nuts. And I'm like, okay, um, he's just like looking at, like the sounds and the colors, and, and you know, I'm like he's just the movie really liked the theme song yeah he would like dance to the theme song stuff and I'm like okay, well then, you know, I could put music on, I guess, instead.

Speaker 3 15:34

but it's like you know sometimes like I want to watch something and then I'll put it on and I'm like should I not be like, should I not be like watching my show with him in here? And like, have it on the background? Sometimes I like the TV on in the background during the day instead of music or something. And then they're like well, that's screen time. You shouldn't have screen time. You know my screen time. And I'm like okay.

Speaker 1 15:59

I'm just going to throw out the fact that we are not trying to be perfect parents. We are trying to be good parents. But I'm just saying a little screen time is is kind of okay in our books.

Speaker 3 16:14

Yeah, and like I don't you know, I mean people have their reasons for for no screen time.

Speaker 2 16:21

And that's totally valid.

Speaker 3 16:22

But for me I am definitely like, I'm okay with screen time. I feel like there's a reasonable amount of screen time that can be had and beneficial and whatever. But again, like you know, society kind of makes you feel like you shouldn't be doing certain things wrong.

Speaker 1 16:38

I don't think you're doing it right or wrong.

Speaker 3 16:41

I think it's a personal choice for everybody and if you're okay with screen time, great. If you're not okay with screen time, fine. But I think that there's definitely like a time and a place and you know you're, you can bond as a family during like screen time, Like you can all gather together watch a movie, have some popcorn like that's great. It's a great family bonding experience Granted.

Speaker 1 17:04

I think everybody should probably put their phone down watching the movie, so you're like fully present One screen at a time is my preference, because I mean, I find Brett and I at night unwinding watching a show or something, but then we're both also on our phone yeah.

Speaker 3 17:21

And so I'm like one. We're not really talking and then we're not really watching the show. So we're existing next to each other. Yeah, I feel like I could definitely be better with that. And then I think, like, as Bo gets older, we're like okay, we should like, like we all like to still eat dinner together. Like me, brett and Bo and I'm like no phones, like I try not to have my phone at the table so like we can actually have some time like Brett and I to talk.

Speaker 3 17:50

we're engaged with Bo, like stuff like that. I think there can be times where you're like no screens, no phones, like there's time in a place for that, with family time, and then I think there's a time where I can also bring you together, like having a family movie night and even like doing the thing like up North we had the projector screen outside and set up a fun movie that's fun yeah. So there's definitely like benefits to it too, if you like. Think enough about it.

Speaker 1 18:19

Yeah, which we overthink everything, so you've come to the right place we need some help thinking, thinking through anything.

Speaker 3 18:27

Well, and then it comes like with your age group, like Bo doesn't really have a choice, he like I turn the TV on or I turn it off. He doesn't really get a say, he can't say anything. But like with you and your kids, like you know, I'm sure you've had plenty of disagreements about like the screen time limits. So like, how do you handle or navigate those?

Speaker 1 18:46

Well. So it's that's funny that you bring that up, because I had to at one point on Hayden's phone. I had to set, like you can do, the screen time limits right within an Apple phone. So I set up a whole bunch of things on hers and it was basically limiting, like how long she could use different apps or how long she could use any of them you could get very specific and what hour she could use them, because I had found out she was using them late at night and this was in her middle school days.

Speaker 1 19:22

Yeah, I didn't want her doing it, you know one, two o'clock in the morning she was all of a sudden was doing this or she was texting friends and things like that. So I ended up having to like give her this downtime between certain hours. And then I noticed like you can like track how much time she's spending in certain areas and she was like on Instagram for four or five hours a day.

Speaker 3 19:47

I'm like oh, my God.

Speaker 1 19:48

That's good really I mean, even if you're just scrolling, no, no, no, no, it's not gonna work for me. So you know like I had to like limit her for scroll time to like two hours and that's still a ton, but I figure she's probably. You know, when you're in the bathroom she's scrolling. You know, just yeah, it's like you're not necessarily like watching something, it's just a scrolling. So I gave her a little bit more on that, but not four or five hours. That's crazy.

Speaker 3 20:16

Well, I mean, yes, you can go down a rabbit hole on Instagram and all the videos and stuff but, still like if you come up and it's four hours later, like whoo Right.

Speaker 1 20:24

And it's like YouTube as well. I had to put a limit on those, and then I had to block her out of some apps and lock her phone down more, which I should have probably done when she first got it. But she was younger and I had gotten her phone so that she would be able to call me when she was at a friend's house, and then I wanted her to have one when she was in middle school. I just had an issue I needed her to be able to contact me with all the school stuff that goes on these days. I just wanted her to be able to contact me while she was at school. So that's why she had hers a little bit younger, like Taylor she's.

Speaker 1 21:01

I mean she'll probably she'll have one before she goes to middle school too, but we still we've got two years and you know she's a little different. I don't know how we're gonna handle her yet. I haven't quite figured that one out yet. She's not like her sister at all and I think she's gonna be tougher with this phone deal especially the way she wants to use electronics Just because she has such an interest, yeah, in it.

Speaker 1 21:24

Yeah, and she's just more clever at a younger age than Hayden. I don't know. I don't think she's learning from her sister. I think this is all her cause. Those two clash quite a bit right now, so I don't know if she's learning from her.

Speaker 3 21:37

I feel like they're at those like hard ages too because, like right now, the age gap is like definitely like Taylor's getting into that, like wanting to like do more things. Be just like Hayden and be like her sister, and then Hayden's kind of like growing up. It is just like no, get away from me, leave me alone.

Speaker 1 21:56

Yes, 100%. That's why they build that wall between them.

Speaker 3 22:00

Of pillows.

Speaker 1 22:01

They do, yeah, backpacks in the afternoon. If they both have to sit in the back, yeah, that's just lovely. But so I think it does make sense to put those limits on there. And then you're not as apparent having to constant be like. You know, are you on your phone, or checking to see if they're on their phone, or how long have you been on your phone, or setting timers? You know like we use Alexa to set timers constantly and it's just done for you.

Speaker 3 22:26

I think when you decide to give your kids electronics like, have like the expectations and almost like ground rules set up in your head or like whatever systems you want in place so that when they get those like they know that's like the norm for those things and it's like great to like for me to say what.

Speaker 2 22:47

I haven't had to do it yet.

Speaker 3 22:48

And like technology has come so far, especially even when, like Hayden, was little like you can only like now, I feel like I can do it.

Speaker 1 22:55

She had like a kindle. You know, that's what we got her.

Speaker 3 22:57

I feel like I can be more prepared with Bo because the technology is already here. But like when like Hayden was growing up in like even Taylor, it's like it was still like just kind of coming to like there's all this stuff Wasn't as readily available, or is you know?

Speaker 1 23:11

I guess not. I mean, it was really expensive early on, so they didn't have a lot of it until they got a little bit older.

Speaker 3 23:18

Yeah. So I think, even like even if you have to, like start new systems and people are going to be upset about it for a while, like it's if you feel like it would benefit to set up new systems or limits or however you want to do it with the technology because you feel like it's like too much or it's becoming a problem or whatever like setting up those new systems could help, you'll probably get some pushback, but just like be flexible with it, yeah, but also like know that there you need to stick to limits if you want things to change.

Speaker 3 23:52

If you're having a problem like you can only be so flexible because, like yeah, they're not going to be any help. They're going to push and fight back probably the whole way Any loophole they can find, if you're firm on those things yeah.

Speaker 3 24:04

Yeah, I mean, of course, like if you're traveling like we were talking about before in a car or on a plane or you're whatever, and you need to pull out those screens, fine, do it, you know but it's like every day. Yeah, but like every day use and things like you can have systems in place and you don't necessarily have to be flexible with those because it's a president, it's like a, this is like our household thing.

Speaker 1 24:28

Yeah.

Navigating Screen Time Balance for Families

Speaker 3 24:28

Family time. You have your time to be on whatever you want to be on, but it's like this is, this is how it is kind of thing, Just just to remember that you know, the idea you have built up in your head doesn't always come to fruition when you actually plan it out to your

Speaker 1 24:43

kids. Yes, sometimes it doesn't work quite as you had hoped. That's where the flexibility comes in. You're going to have to tweak it and you're going to have to, you know, make your adjustments and just kind of feel it out as you go. That's what I learned early on, because, you know, originally, like I said, I didn't have anything. So I'm like, oh, it won't be a problem, you know, I can just grab it when she needs to be done. Well, of course, I got busy, didn't pay attention. You know she's quiet, it's fine. She's probably just playing in her room. Yeah, she is. She's playing on our tablet in her room.

Speaker 3 25:18

Well, I think that like makes a good point. Like don't put it on you to have to go get it and take it away from her. Like make it so it's.

Speaker 1 25:28

like OK, it's this time or it does, whatever it does so many things that do it yeah.

Speaker 3 25:33

Right. It's like make it so you don't have to remember to go do it, or you don't have to set a timer to go grab it, you know to not take it when they're quiet.

Speaker 1 25:44

As a parent, you know it's like, do you? You don't want to disturb the quiet monster right now. Do you really want to go take that, or should you just have it for a little longer? So it just yeah, having it set up is much better and you know the Apple products is always. There's things built in for it. There's tons of apps that do it. I mean, there's always something that you can work through.

Speaker 1 26:07

I mean Taylor in her computer. That was a little bit more challenging, but I did figure that all out, although I'm always tweaking it for her, because it just depends on the day. You know, some days she's got to do things early on, some days she doesn't and she's going to do something later. So I have to, you know, change her little. You know time block that she can have on there to do her Minecraft and building and stuff. But I mean it's. You just have to be flexible and it's. I wish I could just say, ok, like there probably is something out there for a computer, I just haven't found it yet. I like every day she can have like a two hour block of time on this and then when it's done, it's done because that's like the tablets will do that. I haven't found something yet, but I also haven't looked real hard, but that would be anyone's found something, leave it in the comments.

Speaker 3 26:59

Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 27:01

That would be amazing, because it's that seems to be our only struggle at the moment. But yeah, like I said, that's just at the moment, I'm sure. And who?

Speaker 3 27:11

knows like five, ten years from now, what technology is going to look like how about a year?

Speaker 2 27:17

Well, that's a change. It's scary.

Speaker 3 27:19

Who knows what it's going to be like. It's going to be Unrecognizable, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 27:25

So I mean, then again, it's going to all be a it's going to all be a totally different ball game.

Speaker 1 27:30

It'll be a chip in our mind, it'll just make a phone call to Sam. It just rings in your. Wouldn't that be so weird? It would be. I know, they tested something. What did they just test something out on? Was it Elon Musk that tested like a brain chip that would allow someone to control someone else? No, it was. I think it was a somebody that didn't. It was a paraplegic or something and they could move their legs move their arms things like that.

Speaker 3 28:05

See, if you like technology for things like that, great like in the medical field, I feel like it's definitely been helpful. But then there's things where I'm just like it's too much.

Speaker 1 28:17

Well, it was somebody else I saw that could speak to her husband. I feel like he's alive, right. Yes, yes. No, it wasn't like that. Well, she couldn't speak and she could speak through like her thoughts.

Speaker 3 28:33

Like oh my gosh like it type it out, or it would say it, I think.

Speaker 1 28:38

I can't remember correctly, it was typed out, or pretty either way, like holograms and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 28:44

Right like nuts. Honestly I would be okay with teleporting somewhere, because that would be really helpful for me if you could just like teleport places. Yeah, we don't have any patients, so then there's no need for car you know, let me just think about where I want to go. I'm gonna go there perfect.

Speaker 1 29:02

We can go. You know, it's a different planets and different, well, you know, find another Universe of sorts It'll be nuts.

Speaker 3 29:09

It's gonna be nuts. But for now I feel like screen time. You just kind of have to find the balance with your family and just go from there. You know, Don't try to put too much pressure on it, Don't let other people tell you what's right or how to do. Yeah, I think that's a big thing. Make your own what's right for yourself and your own family and your.

Speaker 1 29:30

You know the time that you have and that your needs I mean everyone's needs are a little bit different. You know Like what is your day look like, what is your evening look like. You know, if you're working from home and you've got a little one, maybe they have a little bit more screen time. Just yeah, for now it doesn't have to be forever, but yeah, I mean your lifestyle Can dictate a little bit up you know, what you need.

Speaker 3 29:55

Absolutely. I think just Taking your time figuring out what works for you and your family is the way to go and then just do what works for you. Don't let society or what you know people think is the best for you to society or in-laws. Well, either one. I don't really feel like my in-laws care too much about both. Screen time Any in-laws, I just throw in laws in there because it just felt right, yeah, or in-laws, sure don't let in-laws society, anyone else, dictate your family screen time. Do what's best for you.

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