What if your child’s digital habits are informed with your own? Meredith Gansner, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Services, University of Rochester, explores the growing body of research examining how caregivers’ digital behaviors — from excessive screen time and “sharenting” to online health misinformation — can shape children’s mental health, development and long-term well-being.
The conversation examines how children model the digital behaviors they observe, why oversharing online can have lasting consequences, how social media algorithms influence parents’ health decisions, and practical strategies families can use to build healthier relationships with technology.
Featuring:
Meredith Gansner, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Services, University of Rochester
Host/Producer: Carol Vassar
TRANSCRIPT
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Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (00:36):
Hi everyone. We are in Boston. I’m Carol Vassar. This is the Nemours Well Beyond Medicine Podcast. With me right now is Dr. Meredith Gansner. She is a child psychiatrist, and she is with the University of Rochester Medical Center. And you have a presentation that just absolutely intrigues me. And it has to do with children’s health and not the children’s possible addiction to a phone or to screens or to social media, but that of their parents and caregivers. Give us the broad view of how you are presenting this.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (01:14):
Yeah. So the idea behind this is that as we have moved forward in society with digital devices and we have people who grew up with digital devices and their own smartphones and social media, they have become used to using them in almost every facet of their own lives, and they are now having children. And so they are parenting in a very different way than people did before the era of smartphones, before the era of social media. And so I wanted to really focus on the ways in which a parent’s use of social media could potentially impact a child’s mental health and growth and development.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (01:54):
What does this look like in real life?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (01:56):
So that’s a great question. I think there are sort of two categories. There are the types of internet use that are problematic in the sense that they can cause harm to children and cause children to become embarrassed or children to be made fun of by their peers, perhaps through sharenting, which is the idea of a parent basically using the internet as a way to share all sorts of information about their children.
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And then there’s also the use of the internet in a more dependent way. So parents snubbing their children for use of the internet and not being able to be as emotionally available for their children because they’re on their devices. And also modeling for their children how digital devices can be used to relax and cope with things, which I will admit some parents struggle with themselves, but kids especially struggle with when that becomes their coping skill.
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And so there are the parents that are using their devices too much and perhaps kind of dependent on them, if you will. And that’s harmful to children’s development, we’re seeing now. And then there are the parents that post things online about their children in ways that could be harmful for the children’s mental health. So there’s two larger categories.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (03:05):
Which is the sharenting. So let’s start right there. You’ve given a great definition of it. What’s the problem with sharenting? Putting your child’s photos on Facebook or whatever. I’m an old person-
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (03:18):
Dating yourself.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (03:19):
… so Facebook is… I am dating myself. Grandparents doing it. Is there the oversharing? That’s clearly an issue.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (03:27):
Yeah. So there are many, many problems with sharenting. And I think most people who sharent are doing so with good intentions. They want to show pictures of their children or grandchildren doing things that they’re proud of and to connect with people surrounding the achievements of their children. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with that at all. But unfortunately, when we put our children’s information out online, it’s not necessarily ours anymore. And certainly now with AI, there’s even more of a push to encourage parents and grandparents to not post children’s images online because these images can then be used for all sorts of other not so-
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (04:08):
Wholesome.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (04:08):
Wholesome. Yes, that’s perfect. Not so wholesome activities. And also identity theft is a potential risk. In addition to the deep fakes with AI, there are a lot of problems with having your children’s images just kind of floating out there for other people to take. But on top of that, you also are making it such that they might not have their ownership of their own achievements and their own developmental milestones. And so you sharing them out into the world before maybe they can do so, it takes some of that away from them. It could make it such that they start to resent parents. They start to become frustrated with information that may be put out there by their parents or grandparents online because they didn’t get to disclose it themselves. They didn’t consent to it. And that’s a huge issue is that these children are having sometimes their entire lives put on the internet without ever consenting to that.
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And thinking out even further, people have argued that when these children come of age, where they need to be getting life insurance and getting jobs, what your parents and grandparents might put out there on the internet about you could actually impact your ability to do those things. It’s publicly available data, and you could have people looking at it and saying, “Oh, you’ve been diagnosed with this illness because your parents said it 20 years ago.” Or, “You wouldn’t be a good candidate for this job because your parents said you did X, Y, Z or were struggling with X, Y, Z this many years ago.” And so it’s not something that, unfortunately, it was really exciting at the beginning, and it seemed like a great idea, but a lot of people didn’t think about the consequences of it down the line.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (05:40):
There is definite damage to the child’s future prospects and possibly even the child’s emotional well-being as time passes. Talk about that.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (05:50):
Yeah. So I think that again, that sort of falls into two brackets. The children can have their emotional wellbeing hampered by parents not being emotionally available, through them being kind of dependent on their own phone use and using their phone too much. But also because parents could put information out there that maybe can cause them to be cyber bullied or can cause other people to make fun of them.
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Or even I have seen a case clinically where a patient, they had their lives broadcast and they saw that people were cyberbullying them online… People, complete strangers, were commenting on their looks, making fun of them on the internet. And that’s a lot for a child to have to take. And the fact that they weren’t even putting themselves out there. It was their parents that were putting them up there to be made fun of in such a way. And that’s an incredibly hard thing for a child to stomach when they’re that young and they don’t have the skills yet to understand what that means.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (06:43):
And we’ve seen parents monetize that and sometimes in a big way. Some of these kids are now adults coming back and saying, “Hey, this was not a good experience for me.”
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (06:55):
For good reason.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (06:55):
Everything writ large, what are your thoughts on that?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (06:59):
Yeah, I really struggle with that. On the one hand, I think it’s fantastic that there are parents that… And there are parents who outwardly say, “I was struggling to get by. I was financially struggling. I could not make ends meet. And being able to monetize my family and post about them online is a way that I could do that. Was also a way that I could share maybe parenting experiences that I had with the world out there. And people are grateful for that.” And so I want to be respectful of those people that have been doing it for those reasons, but it is a slippery slope. And I think when you’re monetizing your children’s lives, you run the risk again of causing them to be in front of the entire world and thinking about milestones that they should be making. Parents posting their daughter’s first periods online and things like that-
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (07:43):
Oh, dear.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (07:44):
… information that I would’ve been so humiliated to have had online on the internet for other people to see. And so you are also, though, teaching children when you monetize their lives in such a way that that is their worth. That is their self-worth: that they are only valuable into what they can present to the world and in viewership, likes, and comments. And that’s not how society is. And often in the real world, people don’t always give us likes. People don’t tell us and give us the feedback that makes us feel good. We need to develop that within ourselves.
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And by having your child’s worth be set in how other people view them, you’re teaching them that that is what matters. It’s not what they are inside. It’s not how they feel about themselves inside. It’s how other people view them. And that’s really dangerous, especially as they get older. And we know that, unfortunately, as these kids get older, they’re not really as… Well, they also want their own lives, but they’re also just… They’re not as watchable. People don’t pay subscriptions to watch young adults as much online anymore. And so they suddenly lose that viewership and lose that opportunity, and it can be a really hard adjustment.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (08:46):
And emotional damage, as we have already talked about, can be the result. And lifelong.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (08:53):
Yeah.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (08:54):
Let’s talk about the parents or the grandparents or the caregivers who are just looking at their phones all day. It’s almost negligence, isn’t it?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (09:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer(09:04):
A form of it.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (09:05):
It is. It is. And it’s a very sneaky sort of negligence in that many of us now have learned to use our phones. I myself use my phone sometimes as a coping skill. We sit down on our couches, we say, “I just need to relax,” pull up our device, and just start scrolling instead of just sitting with the boredom or thinking about things and not being able to take that time and that space to say, “Oh wait, what am I doing before I’m showing this to my child and showing this to them as a way to cope, as a way to relax?” We don’t realize we’re teaching our children to do that.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (09:35):
So that modeling is…
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (09:36):
We’re mirroring this for our children. So they see, “Oh, when I want to relax or cope, I should just go on my device. That’s what I do.” And unfortunately, we can’t always go on our devices. Children can’t always go on their devices. And so it becomes hard for them to then step away from them and say, “Okay, I need to find other ways to learn to cope and manage my emotions and feelings without going on a device.” There are adults who struggle with that too.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (09:58):
Oh, I do.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (09:59):
Yes, exactly.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (09:59):
Sure.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (10:00):
But children, they’re still learning to work their executive functioning skills. The brakes in their brain aren’t quite fully operational. And so for them, it’s even harder when we ask them to put the phone down or the video or a game console down. They have a lot of difficulty separating from them. And so I think, unfortunately, when parents use these devices as a way, sometimes even to regulate their kids’ emotions. If a kid’s very temperamental or prone to tantrums, you might be reliable to give them a phone or a device to calm down. But then they learn that A, they can tantrum to get that device. And then also, B, they never learned the other skills that they can use to regulate. So then when they do lose their phone or lose their video game console, they can become explosive in behavior and don’t know how to cope with those big emotions.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (10:44):
Just handing the kid the phone and maybe showing them, “Okay, you can look through TikTok,” when they’re of a certain age, hopefully. Is that a gateway to the child’s own addiction, possibly to social media and to screens?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (10:57):
Yeah, that’s what it looks like from a… We’ve now finally had enough longitudinal data collection to say kids who grow up with parents who are dependent on their phones are also more likely to be dependent on their phones. What’s tricky is that we know that there are certain genetic conditions like ADHD, for example, that can make us more likely to be dependent on our phones. And then since they are, in fact, inheritable, our children are also more likely to have ADHD and become dependent on their phones. But certainly the modeling for our children is a big piece too. And so we’re not destined, or it’s not our fate, to inherently go on our phones and become dependent upon them. That’s something that we see through other people, and we’re just more likely to fall into that if we don’t have our executive functioning skills quite at the place where we can put our phone down appropriately and model things appropriately for our kids.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (11:43):
One of the things about a phone is it’s a computer in your hand, and it gives you the world; it gives you information; it gives you health information. You have actually studied how parents gain the health information that they do from the screens and how that influences the way they are parenting their child. Talk about that.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (12:02):
Yeah. So parents now more than ever, the vast majority of parents use the internet as a way to get information about their kids’ mental health or their kids’ behavioral health or their kids’ medical health, vaccines. So all health-related topics are sort of available online for parents to peruse and try to understand through the internet, which again is great. I think the ideal is having tons of information out there so that we can all have as much information as possible.
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The problem being that a lot of the information online is inaccurate. And I think many of us know that. In fact, many studies show the parents know that too. Parents know a lot of the information is false, and they don’t know 100% whether they should trust it. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to tell when that information is false. So you might know that a lot of information is false, but it could be that you don’t recognize that what you are seeing is false information.
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Parents also sometimes don’t understand that the content that is being fed for them is carefully vetted through social media algorithms such that topics that they have chosen before then fuel… They’re being fed other contents that are sort of peripherally related to that. And so you might start off on being interested in one topic and then suddenly get information about a health related topic, which you might not actually have any sort of interest in, but you start getting fed that information more and more that you start to realize like, “Hey, well, maybe there’s something to that. If everybody is saying that our kid shouldn’t get vaccinated or saying that this illness is caused by the exposure to some sort of chemical,” then it’s harder and harder to say within yourselves, “Well, maybe I don’t know the literature. Maybe I missed something.” And so parents start to have that doubt creep up.
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And then they don’t even realize that the algorithms have essentially made them question what they’re seeing and question maybe beliefs that they had preexisting to seeing that content. And so they fall into a trap of believing things that they otherwise might not have believed had they not been looking at social media so much.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (14:03):
It’s almost an indoctrination kind of pattern.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (14:06):
It is. It is. I often tell people my own example and [inaudible 00:14:11] can happen to anybody. I found that I like looking at baking videos and sometimes look at recipes. And I found that, unfortunately, I somehow have triggered my algorithm such that it was first kind of baking-related videos and then moved to videos about being a stay-at-home parent, which is absolutely fantastic, but it is not what I do. And I started getting a lot of videos saying, “You would be happier being a stay-at-home parent if you weren’t working.”
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (14:35):
Interesting.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (14:35):
Yeah. And I thought, okay. But then I started getting more and more of them. And I thought, “Do I?” There’s part of me, “Would I? I don’t know. Maybe I would be.” I’m like, “No, no, no.” And then subsequently I started seeing anti-vax videos and I thought, “Well, oh my goodness, where did this come from?” At least there I knew to draw the line. I was not going to fall asway to that because of my profession. But it was a slow decline into this content that if I hadn’t been in medicine, I might have otherwise believed.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (15:03):
Let’s talk about this from a clinical perspective. Maybe a parent comes before you, and you may suspect that they’re either sharenting or they’re not paying enough attention to their child. How do you start that conversation with the parent so that they can have a healthier child ultimately?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (15:21):
With caution.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (15:22):
With caution.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (15:23):
With caution.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer r (15:24):
Give me an example.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (15:26):
No one wants to be shamed for our digital media habits.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (15:29):
No.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (15:29):
I know certainly when my own husband will call me out and say like, “Get off your phone.” It immediately is, “Oh, I feel so ashamed.” And I say, “No, I’m not on my phone that much. It’s not that bad.” So I think we all feel a little self-conscious in part because we know a lot of us are on our phones too much. But I think it really depends on what we’re trying to achieve. If we’re worried that a child has become dependent on their own device or the device use, they’re getting explosive when they’re asked to get off of devices, I think it can be helpful to encourage more of a family-based approach to that such that you’re not directly saying, “Well, mom and dad, it’s your own fault that you’re modeling this kind of excessive digital media use to your child, so therefore you need to fix that.”
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But more of a, “Well, we know from looking at, unfortunately, the few studies that are out there, that trying to change the whole kind of family system might be a way to approach this.” And such that the kid’s not feeling sort of… Vilified is not the right word, but feeling singled out within their family. It’s not like everyone else gets to be on their device and poor Johnny’s sitting in the corner not.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (16:32):
Which is not a bad thing.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (16:33):
Right. We want the full family to be involved in trying to promote more offscreen activities. And through that kind of change in lifestyle, you can then kind of incentivize those things and decrease the time indirectly that you spend on screens. So that’s a good way to go about it so that you’re not directly shaming a parent for being on their device too much.
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When it comes to sharenting, again, I think that it’s just a lack of knowledge for a lot of parents, and they don’t understand the fact that what they might be putting out there could have certain consequences down the line for their child’s education, their job prospects, for their insurance prospects. And so that just, I think, is more of a psychoeducation about that sort of process and what that could look like and the consequences for that.
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And then with sharenting information or basically publicizing a lot of other aspects of their lives online, that can be a conversation that you have between the parent and the child and help the child advocate for maybe less time on screens or how they feel about it. It can be really hard for children to stand up to their parents surrounding what their parent might be incredibly passionate about and invested in.
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And sometimes for parents, this is how they connect with the outside world. This is their thing. And so many children don’t want to rip that away from their parents, but it may get to the point where they feel like they just don’t know how to bring it up, and they don’t know how to talk to the parents about it. They don’t want to disappoint them. And so it’s our job as healthcare providers to help support kids in advocating for them if they’re starting to feel uncomfortable with their lives being put online.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (18:02):
What are some of the red flags, not so much in sharenting, which I think we’ve covered quite well here, but when it comes to a parent or grandparent or caregiver who might be addicted or spending too much time on the screen, what do you see in the kids that is indicating that they are feeling a little bit neglected?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (18:23):
Well, the good thing is that, at least as a child psychiatrist, I often have to see the parents. And so if a parent is in fact on their phones during a visit and constantly turning to the device, it gives me a pretty good hint. But quite honestly, we know that there’s such a correlation between kids who have problematic device use and parents that do, that if I see a kid who’s struggling with problematic device use, I also automatically turn to, “Okay, this is more of a family-based approach.
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We all need to, in families, sit back and say, how much are we using our phones? And how much are we…” Inadvertently modeling this for our children. And I think if we phrase it in a very non-judgmental way as something we’re sort of looking to change for the child, changing a family system for the child, that’s a good way to get in there and make some changes and also recognize if a parent in fact was struggling with their device use and such that they might come back and say, “Hey, I realized I’m on my phone. I was on my phone so much, and I didn’t even realize it.” And realize that it was starting to play a role in how they were interacting with their child and how they were parenting and engaging with their child.
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So those are certainly red flags that I see, but I’m not in a parent’s house, and also I can’t ask them to show me their screen time report. So as much as I would love to do things like that, and that would be very illustrative, I can’t. And so you have to go about it in a more indirect way. But I will also say from the kind of misinformation standpoint and parents using maybe false information online to base their health decisions off of that, that is often just something parents outright will say, that, “This causes X.” Or, “Doesn’t this medication cause Y?” And because they lay that out there, that’s really a good sign that they’re probably getting this from the internet or they got it from a friend who got it from the internet.
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So at that point, it really, again, becomes a sort of non-judgmental approach of stepping back and asking parents and saying, “I’m curious where you’ve heard this information from.” Sometimes I’ve asked parents to bring in the information if they can, if they can print it out or bring it on their phones so that I can see what they’re looking at and help walk them through it. I think in general, healthcare workers really…we need to be careful about acting like we know it all. I think that’s really been a disservice for a lot of families and suggesting thus far that we know it all. We don’t. We don’t. We have to say we’re comfortable not knowing.
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And I think once we’re capable of modeling that for our patients and say like, “Hey, I honestly don’t know, but I do know that there are some risks with what you’re showing me as a proposed treatment for your child for this condition.” I think parents are a lot more willing to not get on the defensive and say, “You’re just trying to promote big pharma.” Or, “You’re just trying to promote this kind of medication, and it’s not natural.” We don’t want to get into a confrontation with parents. The most important thing is that the parents bring their kids back. And so I really want it to be a conversation and kind of a curious exploration rather than a definitive, “How could you believe this? This is ridiculous.”
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (21:17):
Do we have any sense how large this issue is, both the sharenting and the kind of scrolling and not paying attention to the kids?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (21:25):
Yeah. Large-scale studies show that about 80%, 70 to 80% of parents engage in online searches for health information for their kids. About the same estimates for sharenting. Again, it sort of depends what you’re defining as sharenting. In that case, it’s more of the broad, just putting information about your child on the internet. So it is large swaths of parents and caregivers that are engaging in this behavior. I think… I hope, I guess, that as we get more information about the potential ramifications for the child’s health immediately or down the line, that that number will start to go down or people would just be more careful about what they are putting out there.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (22:03):
What’s one thing I can do to get off my phone? Because if we’re not doing… My daughter and son-in-law do not allow me to share images of my granddaughter. Kudos to them.
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (22:12):
Yes, kudos to them.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (22:13):
What can I do to be more present? What’s one step I can do today to be more present with my grandchildren in the future?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (22:20):
That is a great question. So for those of us who may not meet the level of internet addiction or require more specialized treatment, one of the best ways that we can help reduce our dependency or be more present is by basically reducing the behavioral nudges that allow us to pick up our phones. So some of that is just simply access. I think that’s the easiest thing to hit. If you just take your phone and put it somewhere else and somewhere you can’t get to easily, that is a great way to just say, “It’s all the way over there.” And if you start to get up to want to go get it, to remind yourself like, “Nope, I put it over there for a reason.” Because it’s the proximity that I think is the biggest… I don’t want to say slippery slope, but it’s the easiest thing to target, but also the quickest way for us to go back to our phones is just the actual proximity.
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But sometimes if people have to have it next to them for some reason, if they’re waiting for a call, finding a way to make your phone less enticing or make it so that you have it on grayscale. There are grayscale apps that you can use. Taking apps that you say, “Okay, I know I’m on this app too much, or I tend to, when I go on this app, just scroll for hours.” If it’s TikTok or whatever, finding a way to either delete those apps or put them in the background so you don’t see them. Those are also ways that you can just easily make it such that your phone isn’t something that you’re as interested to pick up.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer (23:42):
Hopefully there is more research being done into all of this, is there?
Meredith Gansner, MD, University of Rochester (23:46):
I hope so. I hope so. Honestly, I think we’re really behind the eight ball. We needed to be better at seeing what was coming. And unfortunately we weren’t. I think as a society globally, we saw that these technologies were fantastic, but they were moving really fast, and we didn’t do enough to get in on the research early on. And also, if you’re looking at longitudinal effects, it inherently takes years to find what’s happening and find out what’s happening.
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So I think we’re trying to, and we’re trying to keep up with the technologies as best we can. The good news is that even though the technology itself is changing rapidly, that isn’t actually as important as just the cognitive processes that are being skewed by the technology. And as long as we understand what these technologies are doing to the way we behave and to our thoughts, and that is actually consistent across many of the different types of social media, then that’s actually a really good way to find a way to confront it or develop programs or methods to tackle it in our own lives.
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Whether that’s a more formal treatment or just, as I said, the kind of informal removal of access or making it less enticing, things like that. We’re hopefully getting to a point where we can say we’re going to be creating more accessible treatments, if you will, or ways to tackle our problematic use. But it’s slow. I will say it’s slow. As a researcher in digital media, it is very slow.
Carol Vassar, podcast host/producer
Dr. Meredith Gansner is a child psychiatrist with the University of Rochester Medical Center. Our interview was recorded live in Boston at the 2026 meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.
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Raising healthy children in the digital age is clearly about more than just managing their screen time. It’s also about parents, grandparents, and other adults in our kids’ lives modeling our own relationship with technology. Our thanks to Dr. Gansner for that reminder, and for joining us on the podcast.
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Our production team for this episode includes Lauren Teta, Cheryl Munn, Susan Masucci, and Alex Wall. Video production by Josh Hansbrough. Audio production by Steve Savino and me. In our next episode, we’ll explore new research examining why fathers are an often-overlooked yet essential influence on children’s health, development, and lifelong well-being.
I’m Carol Vassar. Thanks for listening. Until next time, remember, together we can change children’s health for good—well beyond medicine.
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