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Mike Balsom learns more about Unplugged Canada's efforts to help parents keep their kids away from smartphones until an appropriate age, Donald Combe watches a BBC series featuring art 'detectives' and Rick Mills takes inspiration from a famous poem.
Mike Balsom
Mike Balsom
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What effect is too much screen time having on young children today?

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POV: Help your kids wait until 14 before they have a smartphone

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Kids today have shorter attention spans, higher anxiety and lower self-confidence. They crave the dopamine rush they get from short videos and social media all delivered to them instantly via their smartphones. In this week's Point of View column The Local's Mike Balsom talks to Josette Calleja, an ambassador for BC's Unplugged Canada, who are advocating for parents of younger children to sign a pledge to not give their kids a smartphone until they turn 14, and to keep them away from social media until 16. Find out more HERE. 

View from the Couch: A review of 'Fake and Fortune'

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Television is full of detective shows, but this one is a bit different. Fiona Bruce and Phillip Mould enlist the help of experts in their efforts to investigate whether or not the art in people's collections is truly worth what their owners think it is. Find out what Donald Combe thinks of the BBC's Fake or Fortune in this week's VIEW FROM THE COUCH. 

Ricky Rap: Do not be ashamed of your convictions

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A poem by T.S. Eliot inspires Rick Mills in this week's RICKY RAP.