Kids and Phones: How Do You Manage It?

It's the question of modern day parenting, how do you control your kids phone usage?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now we've all got kids at certain ages on this team. Moira, Horald,
are your boys.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Eight and thirteen? So nine soon and fourteen this year?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Woa minor fourteen and seventeen going to be turning fifteen
and eighteen, and Ben you're at the start.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
How old are your boys?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, we've got an eleven and nine and a five right,
So when it comes to social media, how do you
manage that? Like, my two boys are quite good, but
Credence he has a problem at the minute where he'll
be just looking at his phone all the time. So
now I have to snap him back into it. Come on,
you've gotta get ready, you got to do this. Mike
is the same and they're just listening to music and stuff.

(00:41):
They've started to bring their devices to the table, so
we've got to try and stop that.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
No, no, but that that's the table when we're eating.
And that's what parents we have to think about too, yes,
because it is one thing to say to your kids. Yeah,
like even we were I was watching it yesterday afternoon
and nearly everyone we're all on different devices at one
starf age. Then we sat down and had dinner together
and it was actually it was kind of we saw
each other for the first time.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
In a couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
You're still here.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You haven't got a haircuts. How old are you now?
So we want to know. How do you manage the
devices in your home? There's there's six things you should do.
You should be accountable with your kids. Reducing screen time.
Be realistic when it comes to those you know, cutting
the time limit down. Be engaged so you spend each
day talking face to face with your child, giving them

(01:30):
your full attention. That's what I'm trying to do now,
like at nighttime and stuff. Minds, he's at that age
where he's just don't come to talk to me. I'm
quite happy, so I chat to him every now and
again when we're doing in the car from when you.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Take somewhere, take him somewhere, Yeah, when you have him
strapped into a car, Well, it's like a container with wheels,
I mean take a car.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You have him hosts.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Actually number four, put devices away, like you said, put
the devices down. And maybe you have a free zone.
That's number six, maybe your phone free zone. So the
lound room is where you don't have devices. If you
in the lound dream never see each other.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Never the loundered with the cleanest room in the house.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I've been sitting in the lounging.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hello, anyone, anyone who wants dead up?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah? Or the number six is to go outside and
do like sports, or go for walks and just be
be engaged and be present. But outside on the swings
or just walking around your neighborhood and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
These are all great things in theory.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yes, in theory they're great.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's sound amazing, but we want to know how do
you do it?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
And someone with their kids, how.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Do you do it well?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
With out fair share? I have a ten year old
and a nearly four year old. But how we've controlled
it was when they spilled something on it, we pretended
it wouldn't turn back on, so we would sit there
and we would like try and press it on and
be like, no, you've broken it. Got to take it

(03:09):
away from you now it's gone. iPad is known nothing
and then they turn around and go, oh, the TV.
So then we told them that there was no internet.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
So essentially it's just lying to children.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Pretty much like you know, yeah, the ten.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Year old did they have to have a device for school?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes? See, this is where like it gets really tricky
because my daughter got going into press. She never really
touched a device at all, and when she got to school,
it was like device device and then's like home, wake up,
Oh I want to watch TV. I want to do this.
It's like, no, you need to. Like we were literally

(03:55):
driving down the road the other day most not bad
eye and these kids were on blacks with the fishing
road hanging up and we're like that is a good
old day. Yes, that is what kids should be doing.
Like these kids were like thirteen. I'm like, good on them.
I try and control it, but sometimes when they're just
being little, you know you love them.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Thanks for talking so delicately.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Big tram for the driver on Tom