Jonathan Haidt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So Chuck, if I could just, you know, I appreciate what you're doing.
You're giving structure.
You're putting some limits.
That's great.
But what I'd like you to do is think not screens are all the same and you can only have a certain amount of it.
Think there's good screen time and bad screen time.
Good screen time is two things.
One is direct face-to-face communication, like a telephone call or a FaceTime call.
There's no problem with that one-on-one.
The other thing that's good is long stories.
So humans are storytelling animals.
We've always raised our kids with stories for as long as we've had language.
So watching a movie, if they watch two movies a week,
That's great, especially if they're together.
There's no stimulus response from a movie.
You just watch it, you get lost in the story.
That's all good.
You know what's really bad, and you should say zero, would be TikTok or Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts.
The short videos are horrible.