Anya Kamenetz

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 095: Anya Kamenetz Talks About Her Book "The Art of Screen Time" · 13 Feb 2018 podcast

So, you know, so thinking about those different factors together, and that's why I kind of think about, you know, your balanced media diet and kinds of different uses of media.

Absolutely.

So I borrow the term from Michael Pollan, the food writer, and I talk about enjoy screens, not too much, mostly together.

And the enjoyment is really important because I think that our use of screens, you know, we all use media because we all get a ton out of media.

You know, this podcast is an example of that.

We use it to work, we use it to be creative, we use it to learn about the world around us and to connect with others.

And so modeling that enjoyment with our kids and thinking of media as something that you do together are super important components of this.

It can't just be fear-based and it can't just be based on the negatives or the dangers.

At the same time, not too much.

There is such a thing as too much, even of a good thing.

And so figuring out how to balance screens and media-related activities with activities that are offline, especially spending time with the people in our lives that we spend hopefully the most time with, our families, as well as playing outside and being physical, that all goes into the policies as well.

So I think that the healthy diet metaphor plays into that.

It's possible to have too much even healthy food,

You want to get your kids involved together in preparing meals just because you want to get them involved with you with using media.

And you want to enjoy yourself because we're here on this planet to enjoy ourselves.

And just like with eating, not every bite has to be broccoli and steamed fish.

I mean, there's a role for lots of things in a healthy

So media effects researchers are developing a theory of what they call orchid and dandelion children.

And I know orchid children is also a phrase that people use in the in the neurotypical community.

But basically, what they're saying is we see small but real effects across the population when it comes to the to media exposure.

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