Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1062 | Send Your Kids Outside Again: Free-Range Parent Like a Robertson
24 Mar 2025
Jase, Al, and Zach are captivated and appalled by the shocking stats about the effect of social media, big tech, and today’s kids provided by Dr. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, author, and professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Haidt exposes the strategies used by big tech corporations to hook kids on their apps, and Jase shares his own experiences as a father encountering these dangerous practices. But, Dr. Haidt proposes a four-step plan to win back the childhoods of kids all over the world. — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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.
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.
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