Sept. 17, 2025

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

A recent Harris Poll found as released and had internet parents in an uproar. Tori and Gwenna had a bit of a different take. In a data driven world, how do you cut through the click bait headlines to see what the data is actually describing. Do we have a long series of struggles helping our kids navigate tech? Sure. Is it a huge problem that kids aren’t building forts outside anymore? Maybe not as big a problem as the reporting would have us believe. In this episode of Childproof Gwenna and Tori take on helicopters. (Spoiler: We win.)

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