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Sarah and Miranda host their first dad, cultural critic Phillip Maciak, and dig into screen time, shame, nostalgia, hugs, and multi-level marketing for second-graders.

Links:

* Phil’s book, Avidly Reads Screen Time

* Phil on Instagram

* Phil’s review of Season 2 of the Bear in The New Republic

* The NOLA Pelicans’ King Cake Baby mascot

* The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

* Stephanie Murray’s thoughts in the Dispatch

* ’ thoughts in Romper

* Melinda Wenner Moyer’s thoughts in

* ’s The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

* Sky Guide

* Jessica Grose on Screens in Schools

* The Digital Wealth Divide in Schools

* Phil on Frog and Toad

* on Bluey as the Breaking Bad of family television

Culture Recs:

* She-ra and the Princess of Power 

* Hilda 

* City of Ghosts 

* Harriet the Spy Show 

* Muppet Babies 

* with and



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