It's My Screen Time Too

We discuss lawsuits filed by parents against video game companies for allegedly causing psychiatric disorders in children. Are lawsuits really the way forward in managing our anxieties about screens? We also catch up on what we’re watching during our grown up screen time.

Things we mention in this episode:

Kids Hooked on Video Games Prompt a Flurry of Lawsuits by Rachel Graf in Bloomberg Businessweek 

Instead of watching TV or movies with our kids this week, we’ve been:

• Listening to Phineas and Ferb songs in the car
• Re-evaluating our streaming subscriptions

What we’re watching during grown-up screen time:

• Bridgerton
• Girls5Eva

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We review the recently released movie IF. This might be the first kids movie of the summer season, but we question whether this Ryan Reynolds vehicle is really a kids movie at all. Is it just a sneaky way for us to confront our anxieties about parenthood while distracting our kids with goofy images of anthropomorphized marshmallows?

Previous episodes we mention:

• Animal Crackers 
• Spirited 
• Duck Tales 

Goldie Hawn bemoaning her role as the mother in First Wives Club  

IF made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
• Fight Club

We cast the gritty HBO reboot of the movie with:

• Ryan Gosling as Cal

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There have been think pieces galore this past month about the approaching end of the beloved preschool series Bluey. We talk about the intense parental love for the series and how to move forward after the end of something we love. We also catch up on what we’re watching with our kids and in our grown-up screen time.

Things we mention in this episode:

Everything ends. Even Bluey by Bryan Walsh in Vox 

Raising Raffi by Keith Gessen  

What we’ve been watching with our kids:

• Phineas and Ferb
• Fallout
• Knuckles

What we’re watching during grown-up screen time:

• Three Body Problem
• Ripley
• Sheng Wang: Sweet and Juicy
• Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda
• The Sympathizer

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We review the reboot of Dora on Paramount Plus. Did this classic bilingual heroine really need a new look?

Things we mentioned in this episode:

McSweeney’s article “A Court-ordered Letter from Dora the Explorer’s Mother” 

How AI Is Already Transforming Moviemaking 

Previous episodes we mention: 

• Dora and the Lost City of Gold 
• Ms Rachel’s Songs for Littles 
• Puffin Rock 
• Snoopy Show 
• Fraggle Rock Back to the Rock 
• Creature Cases 

Dora made us think of these shows for grown ups:

• One Day at a Time
• Lupin

We cast the gritty HBO reboot of the show with:

• Isabela Merced or America Ferrera as Dora
• Rita Moreno as the Tiny Dancer

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In this Screen Time in the News episode, we discuss a recent event in Massachusetts wherein a sixth grade student at Whitin Intermediate School took a state-required standardized test on a school issued Chromebook and suffered first degree burns and blisters.

We also catch up on our family watch lists and what we’re watching once the kids go to bed.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

Today’s Screen Time in the News article: Uxbridge pulls laptops from service after student burned during MCAS test by Shaun Ganley from WCBV5 (Boston’s News Leader) from April 9, 2024 

What we’ve been watching with our kids:

• Billy Joel concert
• Phineas and Ferb

What we’re watching during grown-up screen time:

• Loot on Apple TV+
• Three Body Problem on Netflix
• Girls5Eva on Netflix

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It’s Earth Week, so we’re reviewing the nature documentary series Queens on Disney Plus. Find out whether the combination of beautiful photography and female-centric stories is a winning one and which of your hosts just can’t handle the harsh realities of life in the wild.

Previous episodes we mention: 

• Cinderella 

The article telling the true story behind the lemming suicide myth, compliments of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game 

Minneapolis’s first all-female fire department from the 1980s  

Queens made us think of these shows for grown ups:

• The Amazing Race
• Game of Thrones

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Things we mentioned in this episode:

Today’s Screen Time in the News article: Sharing childhood faves with my kids has its ups and downs – but I know it takes them places Netflix or Disney won’t by Myke Bartlett from The Guardian on March 18, 2024

Past episodes we mention:

• Pollyanna

For more on our journeys into watching old movies with our kids, check out these newsletter posts:

• Tron 
• Beetlejuice 
• Free Willy 
• The Neverending Story
• The Karate Kid 

And just to prove what flip-floppers we are on this issue, here’s a post about replacing childhood faves with more modern picks.

Fresh Air interview with Molly Ringwald 

What our kids are watching this week:

• Pokemon Horizons

What we’re watching in grown-up screen time:

• 3 Body Problem
• Manhunt
• Palm Royale
• Cheers

If you’re intrigued by some of the potentially inappropriate shows we talked about someday sharing with our kids:

• Alf is currently streaming on Tubi and Peacock (as of April 10, 2024)
• Dinosaurs is currently streaming on Disney Plus (as of April 10, 2024)

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Things we mentioned in this episode:

Previous episodes we mention:

• Kung Fu Panda 4

2 music videos for you:

• The truly terrible music video for Vanilla Ice’s rap in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 
• The much better music video to the Phineas and Ferb song “There’s a Platypus Controlling Me” 

The Loud House Movie made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:

• Irish Wish
• Leap Year
• Happy Shiny People
• Just the Ten of Us
• Big Love

We cast the gritty HBO reboot of the movie with:

• Tatiana Maslany as all ten Loud sisters
• Kal Penn as Dad
• Chloe Sevigny as Mom

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Things we mentioned in this episode:

Parents have a problem with screen time, too, teens say by Heather Kelly

Link to the Pew Research Center report 

Zigazoo, the bizarre social media app for kids

What we’ve been watching with our kids:

• Young Sheldon
• The Eternals

What we’re watching (though not always enjoying) during grown-up screen time:

• Constellations on Apple TV+
• Masters of the Air on Apple TV+

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Things we mentioned in this episode:

Old episodes we mention:

• Raya and the Last Dragon 
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie 
• Animal Crackers 

The Watch podcast from The Ringer

We compared this movie to the grown-up book What Color is Your Parchute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success.

We cast the gritty HBO reboot of the movie with:

• Jeff Hiller or Noah Schnapp as Po
• Laci Mosley as Zhen
• John Cho as Li
• Karen Gillan as Mr. Ping

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