When Your Kids Won’t Put Their Phones Down, with Oprah & Addiction Specialist Dr. Anna Lembke

Millions of parents and educators are in an overwhelming struggle to get children and teens to put their smartphones down or stop watching a screen on a tablet. To uncover what is at the root of an issue that is wreaking havoc at home and at school, Oprah sits down with Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Dr. Lembke, author of the New York Times mega-bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, explains why smartphones and tablets should be thought of as providing “digital drugs,” while describing the devastating impact these “drugs” are having on the still-developing brains of young people. Dr. Lembke and Oprah answer questions from mothers who are desperate for help managing their children’s screen addictions. Plus - British actress, Royal Family Member and Patron of Close Screens Open Minds Sophie Winkleman joins from London to talk about why she believes tech in schools has been disastrous for students and is destroying the education system from within.

'Dopamine Nation' by Anna Lembke
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Welcome Dr. Anna Lembke, author of “Dopamine Nation”
00:03:00 - Reframing digital media as a drug
00:08:30 - Smart phones are modern day hypodermic needles
00:09:15 - Addiction definition
00:12:10 - Kids experiencing craving and withdrawal
00:17:00 - Mom of 2 girls wants to know if they are addicted
00:27:15 - Managing teens devices
00:36:15 - How to help college-aged kids
00:42:00 - Actress Sophie Winkleman on ed tech
00:45:00 - Screens in schools
00:48:00 - Distracted kids don’t know how to learn
00:50:00 - Regulating tech for kids

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