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Podcast: The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast
Episode: 1KHO 513: The Business of Replacing Parents - How Big Tech Wants to Raise Your Kids | Dr. Susan Linn, Who's Raising the Kids?
Description: In this powerful and eye-opening conversation, Dr. Susan Linn returns to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast to expose how Big Tech and big business are working to replace—not support—parents. From algorithmic toys and social robots to persuasive “educational” marketing, today’s most powerful industries are selling convenience at the cost of creativity, relationships, and childhood itself.
Dr. Linn, a renowned psychologist, author, and pioneer in protecting children from commercial exploitation, unpacks how screens and toys that “do too much” rob kids of the very experiences they need to thrive—free play, boredom, human connection, and imagination. She explains how...