Hooked On Screens: Can Five Teens Survive 10 Days Without Smartphones? | No Screen, No Life - Part 1

A large part of how teenagers learn, interact and make sense of the world is shaped by the devices. Yet, it’s easy to get lost in the mass of entertainment and other content available online. What happens then when they are cut off from their devices? What happens when we make 5 teens swop their smartphones for a brick phone for 10 days? In this episode, celeb couple Darren Lim and Evelyn Tan sign their teenage sons up for the detox and share their struggles with the boys’ screen habits. We also put a call out for other teens to participate and had an expected number respond. And for the first time, we conduct a nationwide survey to find out just how long teens spend with their devices and what their attitudes and expectations are about their screen time. 00:00 Introduction 02:19 How Darren Lim and Evelyn Tan manage teens’ screen time 06:15 Darren & Evelyn's screen time rules 11:29 Why excessive screen time is bad for teens 12:07 First nationwide survey on teens' attitudes on screen time 16:07 Meet the teens hoping to cut down their screen time 21:22 How many devices do teens have? 24:01 Rules of the brick phone experiment 25:27 Teens react to brick phones 30:41 Testing teens' brains before the phone detox 37:20 Detox Day 1: How are teens faring? 41:32 Detox Day 3: What do teens miss most? 43:58 In the next episode ========= ABOUT THE SHOW: Singapore’s authorities are looking to curb teens’ excessive screen time usage. But how bad is their screen time? We conduct a national survey to find out and put 5 teens through a digital detox to see how they cope. ========== #CNAInsider #NoScreenNoLifeCNA #Teens #Devices #ScreenTime #DigitalDetox #Detox #Smartphone #Dumbphone #Phone #Teen For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnainsider/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/ Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider