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Your kid’s phone is not just a tool. It is a behavior-shaping machine built to hold attention, harvest data, and keep the scroll going long past “just a few minutes.” We take a clear-eyed look at how today’s culture collides with child and teen brain development, and why so many families feel like the rules that worked a decade ago suddenly do not work at all.

Craig connects the dots between algorithms, dopamine, and the prefrontal cortex. he discusses how novelty and desire drive the feed and when focus gets hijacked, time disappears, and stopping feels impossible!

So, what helps? Craig gives practical advice about what helps, delaying social media, coordinating boundaries with other parents, and the early signs that phone-free school days can bring back actual face-to-face socializing.

The darker side matters too. We break down how kids can be pulled into harmful ideologies and how online grooming now happens through social platforms and games that look harmless on the surface. And Craig gives a final reminder that the most powerful long-term protector is still parental kindness paired with steady limits.

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A 10-second post can go viral and still vanish from your memory. A well-told story can stick for decades and it can shape the way your child sees themselves. We sit down with professional storyteller and Moth host Corey Rosen to talk about how family storytelling builds connection, empathy, and the kind of resilience kids can lean on when life gets messy.

Corey shares improv-based bedtime story games like Word At A Time and shared fake memories, plus a hilarious truth parents will appreciate

About Corey Rosen: Corey Rosen is a writer, actor, and storytelling coach whose work spans live performance, publishing, and entertainment. He has performed and hosted with The Moth and is the author of Your Story, Well Told (Mango Publishing, 2021) and A Story for Everything (Turner Publishing, 2025). His entertainment background includes work with companies such as Jim Henson Productions, Comedy Central, and Lucasfilm, contributing to projects across film, television, and themed entertainment. To learn more, visit his website: https://www.yourstorywelltold.com/

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What if the moments that make us cry at sports aren’t about the scoreboard at all, but about who we become when the clock is still running? We dive into a week of winter sports that felt like a lifetime: the stark courage of a legend risking one more run, a young skier laying down his poles to grieve, and a master technician turning anxiety into a gold-medal rhythm.