WEBVTT - Schedule your screen time

0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:09.319
<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:16.320
<v Speaker 2>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.479
<v Speaker 2>tip is to schedule your TV time. Screen Time is

0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.800
<v Speaker 2>more fun and memorable when it is chosen and fits

0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.240
<v Speaker 2>into your evening like a puzzle piece, rather than taking

0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:35.800
<v Speaker 2>over the entire time. So I've been trying to spend

0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.720
<v Speaker 2>my evening hours better, and over the past few months

0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.360
<v Speaker 2>I've been sharing lots of suggestions with people.

0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.680
<v Speaker 1>About how to do that. A key part is to

0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.320
<v Speaker 1>set an evening intention, something that takes thirty to sixty

0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.720
<v Speaker 1>minutes and that you know you would enjoy. When people

0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.080
<v Speaker 1>hear that suggestion, many assume that setting an evening intention

0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.320
<v Speaker 1>is about spending life us time on screens, and it

0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:07.679
<v Speaker 1>certainly can be, but your intention can be screen time.

0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.880
<v Speaker 1>The key is that it is chosen and you have

0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:16.280
<v Speaker 1>thought about how to fit it into your evening. For instance,

0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.840
<v Speaker 1>one item on my Winter fund list this year is

0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.760
<v Speaker 1>to watch some basketball games. I get busy and sometimes

0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.520
<v Speaker 1>forget it is basketball season until the season is almost over,

0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.080
<v Speaker 1>So as part of planning my weeks, I have looked

0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.240
<v Speaker 1>up the Philadelphia seventy six ers schedule and seen when

0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.200
<v Speaker 1>they have games on nights where I don't have something

0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.839
<v Speaker 1>else to do, watching part of the game, maybe from

0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.320
<v Speaker 1>seven thirty to eight thirty or so before I need

0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.560
<v Speaker 1>to do the bedtime routine can be my evening intention.

0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.880
<v Speaker 1>As this episode is first airing, lots of people will

0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.280
<v Speaker 1>be watching the Winter Olympics. This is definitely something special

0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.080
<v Speaker 1>that can be an evening intention. In particular, you could

0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.320
<v Speaker 1>tape the coverage, then figure out which particular sports you

0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.600
<v Speaker 1>most want to watch, and watch those segments during whatever

0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.560
<v Speaker 1>window you have. I know that for a lot of people,

0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:18.920
<v Speaker 1>watching YouTube videos has replaced watching old fashioned television. With that,

0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.400
<v Speaker 1>I still think we are best off choosing what we

0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.280
<v Speaker 1>will watch with intention. Maybe you see that one of

0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.280
<v Speaker 1>your favorite creators has a new video posted. You could

0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.720
<v Speaker 1>save that for the evening and watch that as your

0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.880
<v Speaker 1>evening intention. Queue it up when you know you will

0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.960
<v Speaker 1>have time, maybe while your kids are watching a different

0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.680
<v Speaker 1>video or after they go to bed. Pay full attention

0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.959
<v Speaker 1>to it rather than multitasking, and when it is done,

0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.280
<v Speaker 1>get off the screens and go do your next thing.

0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.840
<v Speaker 1>By scheduling screen time, we take charge of this time.

0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.880
<v Speaker 1>We choose how it fits into our our evenings. Rather

0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.600
<v Speaker 1>than having it fill the whole evening unintentionally. We can

0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.400
<v Speaker 1>even watch better things. If you and your spouse want

0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.360
<v Speaker 1>to watch a two hour movie on a weekday, you could.

0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:13.960
<v Speaker 1>You just need to get the kids in bed on

0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.960
<v Speaker 1>time and have it queued up and ready to go.

0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.000
<v Speaker 1>But that would make for a much more entertaining and

0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.839
<v Speaker 1>memorable evening than watching random YouTube shorts because nobody put

0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.560
<v Speaker 1>any thought into it. There is a lot of great

0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.000
<v Speaker 1>movie and television entertainment out there. Best to actually enjoy

0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.200
<v Speaker 1>what we want to enjoy, rather than feeling like we've

0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:43.760
<v Speaker 1>just wasted time in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks

0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.400
<v Speaker 1>for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.

0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:59.240
<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas,

0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.800
<v Speaker 1>or feedback, you can reach me at Laura at Laura

0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:12.200
<v Speaker 1>vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia.

0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.799
<v Speaker 1>For more podcasts from iHeartMedia, please visit the iHeartRadio app,

0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.360
<v Speaker 1>Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.