Episode 22: Screen Time with Phil Maciak

The Mother of it All

Sarah and Miranda host their first dad, cultural critic Phillip Maciak, and dig into screen time, shame, nostalgia, hugs, and multi-level marketing for second-graders.

Links:

* Phil’s book, Avidly Reads Screen Time

* Phil on Instagram

* Phil’s review of Season 2 of the Bear in The New Republic

* The NOLA Pelicans’ King Cake Baby mascot

* The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

* Stephanie Murray’s thoughts in the Dispatch

* ’ thoughts in Romper

* Melinda Wenner Moyer’s thoughts in

* ’s The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

* Sky Guide

* Jessica Grose on Screens in Schools

* The Digital Wealth Divide in Schools

* Phil on Frog and Toad

* on Bluey as the Breaking Bad of family television

Culture Recs:

* She-ra and the Princess of Power

* Hilda

* City of Ghosts

* Harriet the Spy Show

* Muppet Babies

* with and

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