Clare Morrell
speaker
113 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Clare Morrell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And so I give parents practical advice of just distancing yourself from your phones, especially when you're at home with your kids.
Our family, we have a phone box where we leave them and we try to really not have devices out
when our children are around until they go to sleep, and then just dumbing down your phone as much as possible to make it less addicting and distracting to you.
So I always tell people to ruthlessly eliminate apps that they really don't need to do on their phone that could wait for them to do it on a computer, putting your phone in grayscale, hiding notifications, hiding apps away in folders.
There's all sorts of steps.
And there's actually better alternative phone options available even for adults today who say, you know what, even though steps isn't enough, it's still too addicting for me.
And so I myself made the switch about three years ago to a non-smartphone alternative called the Wise Phone that allows me functional apps like tools like Venmo and Uber and Google Maps, but no internet browser, no email, no social media, nothing addictive.
And so I do think
We have to examine ourselves to say, what kind of addictive effects are these screens having on us?
And honestly, coming between us and our children, impacting our relationships with them.
So I always tell parents, the answer is not giving your child with an underdeveloped brain a smartphone to learn how to use it wisely.
But it's actually pushing those out of childhood, helping them form their habits without it.
And then you as the adult having conversations with them and modeling by your own use how to use this technology wisely if and when then they do get a smartphone as an adult.
Showing 101–113 of 113 · page 6 of 6
← Previous