Oprah Winfrey

Well, we have a lot of moms with questions who recognize that they're in trouble, I think, but also don't know what to do.

Ida is a mom of two girls in Massachusetts.

Welcome, Ida.

Tell us what's going on with you.

Phone.

People think if it's not the phone that the iPad is better.

Yeah, that's somehow safe.

Or a tablet is safer.

And also what has to happen, Ida, you have to watch what you're doing with your phones and your devices.

You can't tell your kid you're off of it and you have a problem and then you're sitting at the table and you're on the phone all the time or they're trying to talk to you and you're distracted because you're on the phone.

If you want to extract this behavior, you've got to model the behavior.

Model the behavior.

Yeah, I'm hearing about parents creating tech-free pods with, you know, landlines.

So she had asked the question, do you think my child is showing signs of addiction?

Yes.

Yes.

Does this sound reasonable to you?

We're gonna send you this book so that you can understand, okay?

I really do think knowledge is power.

And I do think understanding the full scope of what you're dealing with is gonna be really helpful to you.