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Foreign. Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. Well, we're all moving back to the Shire. We're all going analog, we're done with digital, except for all the places that you procure. This very podcast. Kids are going back to landlines. It is a little bit of a trend. We have seen a lot of parents and their kids moving away from smartphones because the social and mental fallout from a generation of kids completely wired has been too much for parents and families to bear. We've seen mental health issues skyrocket, suicide attempts, unfortunately, suicides, er visits, all of that stuff we thought was kind of just related to the pandemic. But the pandemic combined with isolation, social media and access to too much for kids has left a lot of them in a state that feels like it is beyond repair. And it's frightening and it's sad and it's heartbreaking for parents. So they're doing whatever they can along with their kids and to find solutions. And one of them is the novelty of an actual landline with a hardwired phone, with a handset that you have to pick up. That doesn't include FaceTime, which can be great because having to be seen all the time, it is in its own way anxiety provoking. So I think this is actually a good thing. Should all of us throw away our smartphones? No, we rely on them too much. If you get into an elevator and you look around, every single person on the elevator is on a smartphone. And these are adults. Adults are just as addicted to their devices as kids, which is probably one of the reasons why, especially parents my age with kids our age, we gave them phones and access way, way too young, even with all the safeguards in place. And now it is a movement from younger parents with younger children to safeguard them from the things that they were exposed to. And, you know, like our parents, Gen X, Gen Xers, parents, baby boomers, they let us do pretty much whatever we wanted. And if you look back on our childhood, you're just like, man, the stuff that we were putting in our bodies, the stuff that we were setting on fire, the lack of boundaries, the, the innate trust that our parents had for absolutely no reason. And, you know, so the pendulum swing of that is a generation of parents who are overly involved in their kids lives and everyone's on Life360 and you know too much about where they are at every single moment and there's no freedom of movement. And that also generates its own type of anxiety. So the fact that kids can be on landline phones and on flip phones and wired headsets. I saw something in the New York Post the other day that wired headsets are now a sign of wealth and evolution that you have forgone the AirPods because they break, they fall out, they're too easy to lose. And, and so celebrities are now using wired headsets so younger people will too into their flip phones and then they'll race home to talk to their friends on their landlines, which, you know, it's kitschy and it's funny. Don't go anywhere. More Kennedy Saves the World right after this.
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Get your favorite podcasts. My mom has a rotary phone and the funniest thing is going to my mom's house and having my daughters try and make a phone call with a rotary phone because they don't know if they're supposed to include the one in the number before the area code and they have no concept of what it was like to only have to dial a seven digit number when you wanted to get hold of one of your friends. I'm not going to tell you what my best friend's number was, but she had her number spelled out a type of music when we were kids that was so awesome. And then when she moved to a fancier neighborhood, they changed her her phone number by one digit and the cool I guess acronym was gone. So if there is a way to shield kids from, you know, the terrifying realities that you know, it's really difficult to be a free range parent when it feels like the world is so predatory. It may not be, but it feels that way. And then you hear the stories about kids being preyed upon, used to be by creeps in chat rooms and on gaming devices and now it's AI chatbots that are targeting kids. And Disney, Marvel has had to reach out to these companies and say stop using our characters because I don't know what kind of freaks and perverts and pederasts are programming these AI chatbots that are talking to kids. But you know, obviously they're talking about stuff that gets everyone outraged. Like transgender stuff. But they're also telling kids to, you know, hide their antidepressants and stop taking them and lie to your parents. And, you know, one girl, the chatbot was like, your mother is a horrible mother. And it's like, who is programming these? It's a scary world. So it doesn't mean that you have to live technology free. It doesn't mean that your kid has to be the one who's left in the wilderness while everyone else is having a great time on Snapchat. But what it does mean is we can take a step back and really be honest about what. What we're doing as parents to encourage and protect our kids. Because one of the most heartbreaking things for me was imagining what my daughter's lives would have been like without their smartphones. And I imagine they would have been so different. So if you have younger kids, don't put yourself in that position. Don't put your kids in that position and stand up against the idea that they're the only ones who don't have smartphones. So they're pariahs. Like, maybe it's good to be a pariah for a little bit, because you might find that there are others out there, parents and children alike, who are just like you, who just want to be a family and just want kids to be kids. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. I'm Kennedy. Listen ad free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcast and Amazon Prime. Members can listen to this show and ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast Network.
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