Episode 359: A Roadmap to Technology (and Fun) for Families with Catherine Price

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Mar 19, 2026

Catherine Price, award-winning health and science journalist and bestselling author focused on screen life balance, shares a hopeful roadmap for families navigating tech. She discusses delaying smartphones, phone-free rhythms, and modeling healthy habits. She highlights awe, curiosity, play, and real-world independence as keys to fuller childhoods.

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Attention Shapes The Life You Live

Our decisions about attention shape the life we live.
Catherine Price: "our lives are really what we pay attention to," so cultivating curiosity and awe makes experiences more vivid and memorable.

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Tech Companies Shape Developing Brains

Tech now captures most leisure time and is designed to harvest attention for profit.
Price warns kids' brains are in a pruning phase so company-designed apps can shape lifelong neural pathways.

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Algorithms Fast-Track Harmful Content For Kids

Kids' social feeds differ from adults' and can rapidly steer toward harmful rabbit holes.
Price cites a Wall Street Journal experiment where brief signals led TikTok bots into self-harm and eating disorder content.

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Catherine Price explores how technology is shaping kids’ attention, mood, relationships, and development, while offering a hopeful path forward for families. She emphasizes that the goal isn’t just reducing screen time, but helping kids build fuller lives through real friendship, freedom, and fun. Catherine encourages parents to delay smartphones, create phone-free rhythms, model healthy habits, and give kids opportunities for real-world independence—highlighting awe, curiosity, playfulness, and focused attention as key to helping kids thrive.

Resources mentioned:

The Amazing Generation by Catherine Price and Jonathan Haidt
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price
The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

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