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Little League Cell Phone Ban · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: Let's gip to a question for American mama's. Dear mamas,
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  Speaker 1: do you think we should expand cell phone bands for
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  Speaker 1: kids outside of school?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 3: Mama, mama, she said, and joining us now our American mama,
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  Speaker 3: Terry Netderville.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things we have seen in recent
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  Speaker 1: years across the country, more and more schools are saying, hey, kids,
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  Speaker 1: you got to check your cell phone out the door.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have it out of class. And we've seen
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  Speaker 1: teachers say, well, you know, all of a sudden, I've
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  Speaker 1: got kids paying attention again. But there was also this
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  Speaker 1: video going around of a little league baseball team where
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  Speaker 1: they're having the best season they've ever had, and it's
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  Speaker 1: because they institute a rule. Not only the kids not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to bring the cell phones to the game, the
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  Speaker 1: kids are not allowed to be on their cell phones
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  Speaker 1: for five hours ahead of the game. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think about that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my first thought was, wow, it must be a
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  Speaker 2: tournament to be able to get it five hours before time.
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  Speaker 2: But I love this. I love this, And I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to read a few more segments of sentences from that
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  Speaker 2: tweet because it said so much. It wasn't just that
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  Speaker 2: they went on this incredible run and they won the
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  Speaker 2: first state title ever ever, but the assistant coach was
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  Speaker 2: saying that the kids started talking to each other again,
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  Speaker 2: they locked in, they focused like their lives depended on it,
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  Speaker 2: and they went on the greatest run in the program's
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  Speaker 2: entire existence. It was their first New York state championship ever.
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  Speaker 2: Coach also said, when the apps disappear, the real kids
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  Speaker 2: show up. The players. They love it. Structure works, discipline works,
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  Speaker 2: focus works. Phones don't. And it really did take me
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  Speaker 2: back to this summer that my summer went to camp
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  Speaker 2: and the rule was to take away you couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: phones at camp, you know, so they tell the parents, look,
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  Speaker 2: don't expect you know, if you need them, here's this number.
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  Speaker 2: She loved it. She loved not having the phone. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: because nobody had phones. You know, since nobody had phones,
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  Speaker 2: you really had to concentrate on each other, which you
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  Speaker 2: were doing. The American Pediatrics Association has said that for
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  Speaker 2: the first eighteen months, it is so good and healthy
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  Speaker 2: for a baby not to be exposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have a screen time. And I saw that firsthand with
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  Speaker 2: rich my grandson. For the two years that I got
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  Speaker 2: to keep him when Tristan, my daughter in law, was
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  Speaker 2: working and still was in school. That was their rule,
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  Speaker 2: no screen time. And I'm one that loves the TV on,
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  Speaker 2: even in the background. So I was like, Okay, let
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  Speaker 2: me see what I could. We explored outside, we were
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  Speaker 2: singing songs, we were playing, we were talking, and I
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  Speaker 2: could see. Now, now he's two, a little over two,
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  Speaker 2: I see such a difference in him and other two
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  Speaker 2: year olds. And I'm not saying it's because no screen time,
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  Speaker 2: but I think being exposed to everything. Like we would
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  Speaker 2: go in the woods in our backyard and I would
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  Speaker 2: constantly talk, you know, you know, look at the sticks,
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  Speaker 2: Oh this is dirt. We see the ant heels, and
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  Speaker 2: so I thought, we need to really get back to that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When I was coaching soccer, we had a phrase, the
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  Speaker 1: games are the teacher that when you're out and you're
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  Speaker 1: doing things that's actually learning, yes, exploring that you're exploring,
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  Speaker 1: you're finding new things that when you want to introduce
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  Speaker 1: a new concept, if you can find a game that
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  Speaker 1: makes that happen, and it's not a screen, it's like
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  Speaker 1: a physical, full body what can you do where it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not just one thing, but it's a totally immersive thing.
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  Speaker 1: And what's more immersive than the real world exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know that everybody has seen those reels back
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  Speaker 2: in the eighties and the nineties, and it's these teenagers
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  Speaker 2: are walking through the hallway and they're just showing what
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  Speaker 2: life was like back in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You see people talking to each other. Oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: see parties where they're laughing with each other and they're
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  Speaker 2: communicating and socializing.
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  Speaker 1: I have great memories of the hijinks in between classes,
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  Speaker 1: in the hallways in high school, in.
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  Speaker 2: The notes and all of that, and I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's lacking, and they they there are studies that have
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  Speaker 2: shown that this generation is struggling in the business world.
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  Speaker 2: Those who were brought up with the phone, they're struggling
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  Speaker 2: in the business world because they're so not used to
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  Speaker 2: face to face interaction that they're intimidated by it. It's
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  Speaker 2: a very intimidating thing. It was intimidating even when you
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  Speaker 2: didn't have phones. When you had to the boys had
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  Speaker 2: to call the girl's house and talk to the father
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  Speaker 2: or the mother before they could talk to the girl.
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  Speaker 2: These are things you learn. This is Stephen, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, in Florida they took away phones from
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  Speaker 2: the elementary and middle school children. They have seen not
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  Speaker 2: only a market difference in UH study habits, in grades,
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  Speaker 2: but they said that there's been an improvement in UH
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  Speaker 2: the way that they interact with each other. And there's
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  Speaker 2: less fights. Yeah there, I mean, they just seem.
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  Speaker 1: To be you have fewer distractions, fewer fights. Louisiana's seen
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. Louisiana outlawed phones in classes in schools
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. And again, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at what's gone on in education Louisiana, people like, why
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  Speaker 1: are you paying Louisiana Since the pandemic. No state has
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  Speaker 1: done better at improving student outcomes than the state of Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: The only state that's actually got better test scores now
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  Speaker 1: than before the pandemic in both reading and in math.
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  Speaker 1: State of Louisiana. They took away the phones.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if that's why.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of it, so proud. Yeah, it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see because I know that we're all addicted to
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  Speaker 2: the phones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, and in fact, in that one little piece they
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  Speaker 2: they I can't remember what Ivy League school it was.
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  Speaker 2: But they wanted the professor. Yeah, they wanted to take
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  Speaker 2: away the phones and the students. No, they said, we'll protest.
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  Speaker 1: Mama's button. Terry Needi will thank you so much.