Megan Moreno

On the line now is Dr. Megan Moreno, and she is a UWL Health Kids and Adolescent Medicine expert, and she's recently, um, published a, a book concerning kids and technology.

Doctor, in your book, it argues that parents need help, not hype.

W- what do you mean by that?

For example, listening to music, listening to sleep stories, which are often stories that are told at a very slow cadence and not very much happens in the story.

And so we really wanted to provide families a range of options that focus on getting that high-quality sleep, but also allow families to make choices that will support that child's sleep.

sleep.We are speaking to Dr. Megan Moreno, a UW Health Kids adolescent medicine expert.

We're talking about kids and technology.

What's your guidance for parents when their children encounters either harmful or, or even hateful content online?

And they become exposed to some influences that we would prefer they not be exposed to at the tender age that they have access to those things.

So with us, Dr. Megan Moreno, who is co-author of Connecting Raising Kids in the Digital World.

She's a pediatrician, and she is... co-medical director of the American Academy of Pediatrics Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, which I think is a really important initiative.

I mean, like, you know, the American Heart Association is attempting to reduce the incidence of heart attacks.

Thanks for listening and thanks for supporting our sponsors.

They are what make Intelligent Medicine a continuing free resource to you.

And now back to today's guest, Dr. Megan Moreno.

And how do you tell a young kid about the dangers that lurk out there? without getting too explicit and without, you know, frightening them, making them paranoid, you know, because, I mean, it's like the modern equivalent of, you know, when we were young, they'd say, you know, don't talk to strangers, you know, so it made us apprehensive in social situations.

A Wisconsin physician and researcher has a new book that tries to help parents and caregivers tackle those thorny issues with practical advice backed by years of study.

Dr. Megan Moreno is a professor of pediatrics and affiliate professor of educational psychology at UW Madison.

She's co-author of the book called Connecting: Raising Kids in the Digital World.

She spoke with host Rob Ferrett.

I don't know how to talk to them." Really showing interest in what they're doing online, opening up those questions.

And then one thing I've seen be really successful is some parents will use that information and say, "Oh, you love building games off- online? Let's go get some clay," or, "Let's, let's get that pile of scrap wood that I had in the backyard and build something." And, and it really becomes a way to have tech connect you to these offline interests.

Dr. Megan Moreno is with us, professor of pediatrics at UW-Madison, co-author of the new book Connecting: Raising Kids in the Digital World.

Dr. Moreno, one concern a lot of parents have, uh, one that I had as a parent, especially when my kids were teens, is the world of influencers on various social media platforms, uh, who may be giving a lot of weird messages and portraying their lifestyle in a very particular way that may be misleading.

It's a wonderful organization, except their media group is aligned with industry.

Dr. Megan Moreno, who's the main person at the American Academy of Pediatrics who provides screen time guidelines, has been funded by Facebook.

That's crazy.

extraordinarily unethical for this organization.