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Joe Rowntree; comedian, presenter, and founder of Anxiety Uncovered joins Alastair to explore anxiety, parenting, and growing up in a permanently connected world.
They discuss the “xennial” experience of analogue childhood and digital adulthood, how smartphones have reshaped family life, and why practical guardrails beat either panic or denial when it comes to young people and technology.
5 highlights
- Living between generations: analogue roots, digital reality
- Why parenting is now a four-way system (parent, child, phone, platform)
- Simple rules that genuinely reduce anxiety
- The limits of blanket bans
- Asking “do you want help or just listening?”
Joe Rowntree Takeaways:
- Phones aren’t the problem — patterns are
- Reduce vulnerability windows, especially morning and night
- Make emotional needs explicit rather than assumed
- Adults modelling regulation matters more than lectures
- Family communication shapes future workplace communication
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