It's My Screen Time Too
We review the programming the other critics ignore: stuff made for kids. Find out what to watch for family movie night, what to avoid altogether, and what you’ll want to watch alone, voluntarily.
Episodes
There have been think pieces galore this past month about the approaching end of the beloved preschool series Bluey. We talk about the intense parental love for the series and how to move forward after the end of something we love. We also catch up on what we’re watching with our kids and in our grown-up screen time.
Things we mention in this episode:
Everything ends. Even Bluey by Bryan Walsh in Vox
Raising Raffi by Keith ...
We review the reboot of Dora on Paramount Plus. Did this classic bilingual heroine really need a new look?
Things we mentioned in this episode:
McSweeney’s article “A Court-ordered Letter from Dora the Explorer’s Mother”
How AI Is Already Transforming Moviemaking
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In this Screen Time in the News episode, we discuss a recent event in Massachusetts wherein a sixth grade student at Whitin Intermediate School took a state-required standardized test on a school issued Chromebook and suffered first degree burns and blisters.
We also catch up on our family watch lists and what we’re watching once the kids go to bed.
Things we mentioned in this episode:
Today’s Screen Time in the News article: Uxbridge...
It’s Earth Week, so we’re reviewing the nature documentary series Queens on Disney Plus. Find out whether the combination of beautiful photography and female-centric stories is a winning one and which of your hosts just can’t handle the harsh realities of life in the wild.
Previous episodes we mention:
The article telling the true story behind the lemming suicide myth, compliments of the Alaska Departme...
Things we mentioned in this episode:
Today’s Screen Time in the News article: Sharing childhood faves with my kids has its ups and downs – but I know it takes them places Netflix or Disney won’t by Myke Bartlett from The Guardian on March 18, 2024
Past episodes we mention:
For more on our journeys into watching old movies with our kids, check out these newsletter posts:
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2 music videos for you:
- The truly terrible music video for Vanilla Ice’s rap in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
- The much better music video to the Phineas and Ferb song “There’s a Platypus Controlling Me”
The Loud House Movie made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:
- Irish Wish
- Leap Year
- Happy Shiny People
- Just the Ten of Us
- ...
Things we mentioned in this episode:
Parents have a problem with screen time, too, teens say by Heather Kelly
Link to the Pew Research Center report
Zigazoo, the bizarre social media app for kids
What we’ve been watching with our kids:
- Young Sheldon
- The Eternals
What we’re watching (though not always enjoying) during grown-up screen time:
- Constellations on Apple TV+
- Masters of the Air on Apple TV+
Things we mentioned in this episode:
Old episodes we mention:
The Watch podcast from The Ringer
We compared this movie to the grown-up book What Color is Your Parchute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success.
We cast the gritty HBO reboot of the movie with:
- Jeff Hiller or Noah Schnapp as Po
- Laci Mosley as Zhen
- John Cho as Li
- Karen Gil...
We talk about women in STEM in movies and on TV. Is the Geena Davis Institute’s slogan of “if she can see it, she can be it” borne out by their latest report? We also catch up on what our kids are watching and what’s on our grown-up screen time watch lists.
Past episodes we mention:
- American Girl: Corinne Tan Review
- Lyla in the Loop Review
- Spooky Buddies Review, which is where we talked about the Geena Davis Institute fo...
We revisit the American Girl universe for the first time in years to watch American Girl: Corinne Tan The Movie. We may have struggled to find things to love in this short movie aimed at tweens, but you’d better believe we found a spot for podcast fave John Cho in our reimagined HBO casting.
Previous episodes we mention
In this Screen Time in the News episode, we discuss a recent Burnt Toast podcast episode where diet culture critic Virginia Sole Smith interviews Ash Brandin, The Gamer Educator. We’ve never connected our screen time discussions with anti-fat bias before!
We also catch up on our family watch lists and what we’re watching once the kids go to bed.
The podcast episode we discuss in today's episode is: Are Screens the New Sugar?
We review Pokemon Concierge on Netflix. Katie gushes over the stop motion animation, and Deborah wishes she could name more than two pokemon. They agree that fuzzy, three-dimensional pokemon are superior to their traditionally animated counterparts in hugability.
Pokemon Concierge made us think of these shows or movies for grown ups:
- White Lotus
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
In our gritty reboot casting, we would like to...
We continue our conversation about kids and AI in this Screen Time in the News episode. We discuss an MIT Technology Review article about talking to our kids about AI and catch up on our family watch lists and what we’re watching once the kids go to bed.
The article we discuss in this episode is “You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say” from the MIT Technology Review. It was published on Se...
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We review PBS Kids’ first foray into AI: Lyla in the Loop. Is Lyla’s alien computer friend Stu an adorable way to teach kids about coding languages or a harbinger of the end of all things? At least Katie and Deborah agree that everyone could use an AI sidekick to clean the kitchen.
Other episodes we mention:
Episode 168 Harriet the Spy
Episode 73 Puffin Rock
Here’s a link to Lyla’s “bunny ear” shoe tying...
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