Ep 1062 | Send Your Kids Outside Again: Free-Range Parent Like a Robertson
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What unique situation is discussed at the start of the podcast?
I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome to Unashamed. This is a very... It's a first. It's a first. It's a unique situation we have today as we start our podcast. Never done this. Because we've already had our podcast, but we're now starting the podcast.
Well, Zach, you know, yesterday, because he was in charge of this... He was like, I got a guest coming on. I'll give you all the details. I'll send you some questions. Last night at about 11 o'clock, I was like, what are you looking for? I was like, I'm looking for the details that Zach was going to send me.
It was literally the last thing he told us yesterday.
To be fair, to be fair, my wife's van literally broke.
kaput it's gone blew off engines so i've been i had to deal with some issues maddie can you send him a cheap violin and he can use it as a prop let's just play that violin so zach found a doctor who you know i i was i was saying oh you know is he a believer and zach started him hauling around i'm not sure about that you know he's like but we have a common interest and uh And it was really about this epidemic, what I call the zombie apocalypse, with the cell phones.
This is something we've been talking about on this podcast since we started. For years.
What shocking statistics about kids and social media are revealed?
Cell phones with the kids, the damage to the society, the distractions, and the horrors of social media, and putting immature people in mature environments, and then shocked while they're disconnected, bullying. Yeah. no social skills, suicide going out the wazoo among teenagers. I mean, it's just an epidemic.
And you've got to look at it. I mean, I think people are like, this may be the most important discussion that we need to be having with our families and children right now. It's so big.
But what I feel that's powerful about the conversation we just had is here you have people just from the world saying, agreeing with Christianity of what is happening to our kids? Where are the parents? And so what I found fascinating was it really wasn't about cell phones, even though we talked about that a lot in the epidemic. It's about kids. It's about childhood.
How do cell phones affect children's mental health?
It's the way he put it.
And ultimately families.
And just so you know, as we're going into it, we're setting you up to hear this podcast. This is Dr. Jonathan Haidt. He is a Jewish professor from New York, and he teaches at NYU School of Business. He could not be any more different than this podcast, than us. And yet we found a synergy with him and his book and his research that was fascinating. I was like, I agree with everything this man is saying.
But you know what's incredible is he has all the data and research that that is just anybody should be able to look and say, okay, humanity, we have a problem that has emerged through this. And so I found it very powerful that even when the world is crying out, saying this won't work for society. We're breaking down society. And so what's real funny, I think, and interesting as it went along, Zach, in his theological brain, brought up some real deep truths of the Bible, but he found them absolutely fascinating. He was taking notes, Zach. He was taking notes. Zach, good job on that.
That was impressive. That was a tip of the cap. I thought the same thing, Zach. You were definitely teasing this man to look into, because he's a Jewish man. And you were teasing him to look into the New Testament, some of the things we teach.
Well, I don't want to give it away. No, don't give it away. He threw a clue out. He threw something out there. I was like, that's interesting. So I went and looked up what he said. I was like, whoa, there's another piece of this that you might be interested in. But you definitely got to listen to the whole thing because I think it's towards the end of the podcast. But I think the discussion here, there's not a family argument. that I know of that is immune from this discussion, not one, not mine and not Jace's, not Al's. And there's some raw conversations in this episode and what this conversation is about to be had.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What unique situation is discussed at the start of the podcast?
0:01–1:24
2
What shocking statistics about kids and social media are revealed?
1:24–2:23
3
How do cell phones affect children's mental health?
2:23–4:42
4
What is Dr. Haidt's four-step plan for helping children?
4:42–16:07
5
How do social media effects differ between boys and girls?
16:07–17:40
6
What risks do boys face in today's digital landscape?
17:40–19:13
7
What does Dr. Haidt say about overprotection of children?
19:13–22:36
8
What practical steps can parents take to mitigate risks?
22:36–56:30
Speakers
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