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Worth Keeping
By Matthew Dicks & Medley DeLeonibus | Total FamilySociety & CultureDocumentaryRelationshipsParentingKids & Family
Worth Keeping episodes
- Is Screen Time Rotting Our Kids' Brains? Summer Homework Hell and Teaching Your Kid to Lie
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Is screen time really rotting our kids' brains? In the first episode of Worth Keeping, dad of two Matthew Dicks and working mom of three Medley DeLeonibus take on screen time, summer homework and the small family moments worth keeping.
Medley teaches her four-year-old to stand on her tiptoes to get onto a water slide, and it doesn't go quietly. Matt decides summer homework is the ninth circle of hell. They share the moments from this week they never want to forget: a French horn mistaken for a terrible trumpet, and a whole family singing along to a song nobody planned to sing.
Then they get practical: how to turn your phone's photos into a birthday memory movie, how to rescue a wedding DVD you can't play anymore, and why Matt prints 30 photos every six weeks and covers his fridge with them. Plus: Medley asks ChatGPT about screen time, Matt brings the research, and both hosts rule on whether a dad can go inside while his kids play in the fenced backyard.
Chapters
00:00 Summer homework is the ninth circle of hell
00:33 Meet Matthew and Medley
02:37 The D names and the Clara story
07:54 Why we're making Worth Keeping
10:24 The moment you might forget: Daisy on her tiptoes
12:23 Charlie's French horn
14:19 Win or Wreckage: summer homework
18:39 Win or Wreckage: a family singalong to The Middle
21:42 How to keep it: birthday memory movies
23:26 How to keep it: saving old DVDs and home videos
26:16 How to keep it: printing photos every six weeks
31:44 What we've learned: is screen time rotting our kids' brains?
40:03 Family Court: can kids play outside unwatched?
45:23 What we're keeping from this episodeMentioned in this episode
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
- Snapfish (the photo printing service Matt uses)
- The research on TV and brain health:
Long-term television viewing patterns and gray matter brain volume in midlife (Dougherty et al., 2021): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898315/
Leisure-time sedentary behaviors and all-cause dementia, Raichlen et al., PNAS, 2022: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206931119
Your turn
What moment from this week would you have forgotten by next year? Send it to us, or send us your Family Court dilemma to [email protected]
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Worth Keeping is a family podcast for busy parents who want to hold on to the moments that matter. Made by Total Family.
48 min
About Worth Keeping
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A family podcast for busy parents who want to hold on to the moments that matter. Dad of two Matthew Dicks and working mom of three Medley DeLeonibus share the real highs and lows of raising a…
family, then give you one simple way to keep what matters.
Most of the moments that shape a family are small: a kid's one-liner at the water park, a song the whole house sings without planning to, an argument over summer homework. They feel unforgettable at the time, and a year later they're gone.
Matthew, a record-breaking Moth StorySLAM champion and author of Storyworthy, has written down a moment from his life every day for years. Medley discovered legacy letters through Total Family, wrote three in a single week, and is now learning to keep the everyday moments too. Together they bring real stories from their own families: the memories and experiences, the triumphs and tragedies, and what each one taught them.
In every episode:
• Win or Wreckage: a family story that went beautifully, or horribly wrong
• How to Keep It: a free or cheap way to hold on to your family memories, something you can try within the hour
• What We've Learned: a big parenting or family question, researched and sourced
• Family Court: your family dilemmas, judged by both hosts
Along the way, you'll get to know the people closest to you a little better and build your family's legacy one moment at a time.
Send us a moment you want to keep, or a Family Court dilemma, at [email protected].
Worth Keeping is made by Total Family.