Episode 22: Screen Time with Phil Maciak

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

• Courtney Tenz’ thoughts in Romper

• Melinda Wenner Moyer’s thoughts in Is My Kid the Asshole?

• Anya Kamenetz’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

• W. Kamau Bell asks, "Who's With Me?" 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 

• Looking at Picture Books with Mac Barnett and Jon’s Newsletter