Renowned child psychologist and author Susan Linn chats with Trey Elling about WHO’S RAISING THE KIDS: BIG TECH, BIG BUSINESS, AND THE LIVES OF KIDS. Topics include:
- How a commercialized, digitized society affects kids’ brain development (3:45)
- Nurturing ‘awe’ in children (6:14)
- Mr. Rogers encouraging silence (14:12)
- Mattel trying to hook babies with Aristotle (19:03)
- Screens substituting for real-life interactions (21:38)
- Amazon’s Alexa for kids (24:16)
- Minecraft (28:49)
- Brand tribes (33:31)
- “Reducing friction” when marketing to children (35:15)
- Digitizing analog toys like Legos (39:01)
- Pokémon Go, -Smile, and -Sleep (42:09)
- Screens and advertising in public schools (50:30)
- Prodigy (54:23)
- Is there cause for hope? (58:51)