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Playing Outside · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, have you noticed
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  kids spend less time with other kids? Well, let's ask our American mama,
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  Mama, Mama, and joining us now our American mama, Terry Netteville.
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  There's an article out from a I believe it's a child psychologist, and
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  she points out there's been a major, major shift in how teens interact with
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  each other after the COVID lockdowns. She said, what it is is that
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  before the COVID lockdowns, for generations, kids would spend on average two and
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  a half two and a half they would hang out with their friends two and
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  a half days a week. Right. You remember growing up, absolutely,
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  you spend all the time with your kids, out with your friends, out
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  in you know, the neighborhood or whatever, going the mall. Now kids
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  aren't spending almost any time with other kids face to face right, right.
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  And she's saying it's leading to major depression issues in our children. Have you
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  seen some of the same things I have? It's this is rampant. This
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  is the deal. The friendships have moved online. And I think about our
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  childhood and when we talk about our childhood with our children and with their friends.
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  They're so envious. They're so envious that we had all these memories of
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  going out and riding our bikes together. And you know, I remember my
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  dad would come out there and he would throw the football and whoever caught this
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  football, there's like fifteen of us out there, gets gets fifty cents.
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  You know, it's like this big fun thing. And or skateboarders, or
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  we would play four square. We have all these memories of being outside,
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  being at the pool. You know, we wouldn't come in until the you
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  know, the lights went out, you know, I mean the lights came
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  on at night. Right. I remember discovering firsthand that you can't ride your
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  bicycle through the drive through. I remember that exactly. Well, nowadays they're
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  saying that kids have moved their social life online. Right, our friends with
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  people they don't know personally. They get gratification from the number of likes,
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  right. They there's a there's depression among this generation like never before. And
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  I think because they don't know how to talk to each other in person.
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  You know, you talk about dating, the dating life. Right now,
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  people they do what's called snap They snapchat each other, right, they don't
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  call and talk and man, I mean, you miss out on so much
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  when you're just doing these little text message bites about each other. You can't
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  really get to know each other until you're really with each other face to face.
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  Yeah, and there's a lot of nonverbal communication that just gets completely lost
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  on social media. And I think that you know, growing up, whether
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  it was with our teachers or whether it was with our friends, that's kind
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  of how you learned how to socialize outside of your peer groups. So when
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  you went for interviews or when you worked your first job, those social cues
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  are so pivotal. That's why when we when we wear the mask, when
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  we were going through the mask phase, you could our children, especially the
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  preschool the youngest ones, right, there are social cues and there are different
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  kinds of responses that teachers would make that the kids didn't get because the mask
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  is on them and they lost so much development during that time. Exactly.
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  Well, we're seeing this along the lines of friendships and dating in today's time.
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  So there's a sadness, but I feel like we're going to get back
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  to it because there's this there's no way they can go out into the world
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  without learning how to verbalize and talk about their own feelings and emotions in person,
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  because it's just kind of a fake world, you know, online they
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  do the TikTok, they do that. This is the first generation in the
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  history of the world that's been like this. This is the first generation yea
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  where kids just simply don't interact with other kids their age. And my question,
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  we've seen some in the depression. Yeah, there's also been a spiking
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  kids identifying as LGBTQ plus, which by the way, also has a high
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  correlation to depression. We're basically doing a social experiment on our children. It's
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  it's heartbreaking, and you know, they talk about the friendships not being as
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  fulfilling. I was listening to this podcast today and they are a lesbian couple
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  out of Great Britain and they're fighting against the LGBTQ plus two spirit whatever it
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  is now. They're fighting it and they have a whole legion. They have
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  this whole group of lesbians who were saying just because they called a new homophobic,
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  they call it a new homophobic because they said, before we used to
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  be discriminated because we liked each other, and now this new generation is saying,
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  oh, you can't be attracted to each other. You must think that
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  you're a boy, you must need it, you know. So they're fighting
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  against that because they see what's happening. And one of the they were probably
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  I would say there were seventies, mid seventy seventy five, seventy six,
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  something like that, and when they were talking, they had such passion about
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  it. They're so worried about this generation, and they're worried about the generation
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  of those who are who are legitimately homosexual, because they feel like they're being
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  led, astray led to believe that there's something they're not and they're mutilating their
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  bodies. They're fighting like you would not believe. And when I was listening
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  to them and listening to their passion and their compassion about it all, they're
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  not They're not willing to lay down and just let this go. They feel
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  like that with the online stuff they talked about that they said, they're being
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  inundated. And now in today's world, if you mentioned it with your friends,
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  if you're talking about transgender transgender stuff, if you open your phone,
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  suddenly on your social media, upcomes all of these lbs. Yeah, all
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  these ads and all this information. So they're being indoctrinated without even knowing it.
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  out about Thank you so much, Thank you,