Screen time and kids

<p>This week we talk about screen time. Are our kids getting too much screen time, how does it effect them and what are some different strategies for dealing with the stimulating and addictive nature of screens and our kids... whether watching videos/movies/showes, playing video games or on a social media / social network platform.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>This Weeks Whiskey: Branch and Barrel, CO<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></li> <li>With the majority of kids doing school virtually, nearly every kid has much more screen time to facilitate their education and school time... but what are the downsides of kids learning via screens and video, rather than in-person instruction and text / reading in books.</li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li>It's a different part of the brain that engages and processes reading text (dealing with logic, categories, ideas and reason), while it's a different part of the brain that process videos (dealing with impressions, feelings and emotions)... which literally results in the brain to be wired differently and process information differently based on if they are primarily raised<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> or learning via video images vs. reading.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Do we as parents default to allowing more screen time for our kids then we should, because it's easier for us to not be bothered because the screen is acting as their "baby sitter".</li> <li>The information we consume about our larger world, affects and alters our perspective of the condition and how safe the world we live in is... and it's likely that that perspective is not our experience or really reflect reality.</li> <li>Common wisdom says that our kids need a phone for "safety" to be able to get ahold of them, which gives the kid access to an incredibly addictive medium with access to a world of information (assuming they have a smart phone)... which is very dangerous.</li> <li>Like many things, how involved and intentional the paren