Dr Garth Graham: YouTube's head of health on the UK ban, screen time rules that actually work and why you need to know about displacement theory
Not Another Mummy PodcastShow Notes
My guest on this special episode, brought to you in partnership with YouTube, is Dr Garth Graham. As well as being YouTube's Head of Health, Garth is also a dad of four, from age three up to a teenager.
In this episode we talk about the UK's social media ban, whether YouTube counts as social media at all, and how it will impact older kids who use YouTube for school work and studying.
We also chat about how screen time vs play time is balanced in his own house and why the notion of ‘screen time’ isn’t particularly helpful for parents. Plus, on this episode we cover:
The three-tier system (YouTube Kids, kid accounts, teen accounts) lots of parents have never heard of, including whether it's too late to move an older teen onto one "Displacement theory" - the test Garth’s wife, a child psychiatrist, uses to work out when screen time's tipped into a problem The family media contract his household swears by, and why it has to change as the kids get older His line for handling bedtime pushback - "dude, they must run a class in it" What he says when parents assume tech companies will always put profit over kids' health
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