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I'm neil and i'm baker
Neil
I noticed that you are checking your phone
Before you came into the studio to record this program
Yes
I probably was you know becker
I spend far too much time looking at my phone
And i really don't like it how about you
I don't think you're alone
I probspend way too ves like at my phone
Well caker we are both adults
But today we're talking about screen time and children
Screen time that's how much time
You spend using devices like smart phones
Like ablets and laptops
Yes
And it's a parparalia worry of many parents
That chilchildren spend too much time on these devices at the end of last year australia baccess cess socisocimedia apps s under six sixens s countries like the uk are considering similar measures
So why is this in this episode will hear from a clinical psychologist and research associate at the university of cambridge
Talking about screentime and children as usual will be learning some useful new words in phrases and remember you'll find all these episodes for caititary along with a transcript on our website bbc learning english dot com
But first nail i have a question for you
According to the uk media regulator
How many children aged three in a
But a smart phone is it a one in twenty
B one in ten
Or see a in ten five
Wow
Well i'm going to guess one in twenty
But i think it's probably more than that well we'll find out the answer later
Doctor emily good daca is a research associate at the university of cambridge
Here she tells shown a mccolumn presenter of baby world servprogramm tetech life
Her thoughts on
Whether we should take away children screen devices completely yeah
I think it's whether is getting them than away from technology
But being really intentional about how we use technology with children for me
The bar absolutely needs to be higher
And therefore i think about how to design products
That think about childhood first
And really think about about chilchildren a different stages learn in develop
And then see if there's a way that technology can enable that family highlights how rather than stopping children from using technology
Parents needs to be more intentional
About how their children use it and intention is a plan or reason to meet
So to be intentional is to act with that plan or reason in mind
It may make you act more carefully as a result
Emily also says the bar needs to be higher
The idiom
The bar is it memeans the standandard expectations or requirements or minimal and very easy to meet
Therefore she believes the bar needs to be higher
Parents need to make their expectations higher
They need to think or act more carefully or considering how much time children spend with technology
You might also hear people say set the bar higher or lower
Emily believes that being more intentional and setting the bar higher will enable children to learn and develop alongside technology
If you enable something
You encourage somebody's ability to do something or to make something possible
Now let's hear doctor becky
Kennedy a clinical ical sysycholost st ffound out of an online parenting platform
Talking about how parents feel about tech and children
The baby see a well service pgragram tech life
I find parents are very very eager to understand what really happening around technology and kids
And then have practical wonalisif they
They do do their
Their home
Make make little shift that feel better
Becky has found many parenrento eager to understand that childreren's use of technology eager is in adjective
That described waning to do or have something very much
Becy y also talks about making little shifts
A shift is a small change
It can be used as a verb or announn
Becky shares an example of a shift
That can help parents reduce children screen time
Moving the device
Somewhere it can't be seen
You can even say to what kid
You know why i moved it
It's actually
Because it's a really hard thing for me to expect from you to see a screen in a room
And not want to use it
I wasn't setting you up for success
Becky explains how it's difficult for children to be expected to reduce their screen time
If they can see their device
Having the device in view
Doesn't set them up for success
If you set someone up for something
You prepare them for it
Yes
For example earlier i set neil up for a shock
When i asked him a question about screen time
Neil i asked you according to the uk media regulator
How many children aged three to four have a smart phone
And i said one in twenty
Well it is in fact see one in five
Wow
I thought it might be more than i said
Yeah
Now let's recap the vocabulary
We've learned starting with intentional
It's an adjective that describes acting with a plan or reason in mind
We had the expression
The bar needs to be higher
To set the bar higher is to make your expectations higher
We also had enaber this to to encourasomesomeon's ability to do something or to make something hier er to be eer is to want to ce the vogbvery much
A shift is a small change
You can also use it as a verb to mean changing something slightly and if you set someone up for something
You prepare them for it once again hours
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