Denise Powell on AI, cell phones in schools, and why she says she isn't a politician (NE-2 Blue Dot)

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World-Herald exclusive: One-on-one with Denise Powell

Ben Doody: Here’s where I want to start: You're a mom of two kids. I think the introduction to your bio, in most instances, is that you’re a mom. I also have two kids. I'm constantly working through screen time, social media and overall connectivity. Broadly, as a mom and as a candidate, how do you look at those issues — screen time, connectivity, social media, et cetera?

Denise Powell: I think about that a lot, especially these days. When I jumped into this race, my kids were pretty well-informed, and we’ve tried to keep the conversations in the house. We don’t want to scare them. There are a lot of scary things happening in the world right now, and we try to be thoughtful about how we talk about political issues and different things around the house, because my kids are 15 and 12, and you want to be age-appropriate.

But they see so many things. My kids have come home from school and told me about things somebody showed them on their phone. So it means that even with our house rules about not being on certain sites, and using all the tools on phones and iPads to keep them from being exposed to stuff they shouldn’t be, we can’t control everything in this world and this environment. So I think it requires us as parents to be prepared to have some of those conversations and try to talk through those things.

I think about it a lot, especially now on the campaign trail. I’m out doing a lot of events. I’m talking about things I’m hearing at the doors. How you explain some of those issues, or how you explain it when someone’s attacking you on something, how you explain why people are angry about something or why people have different feelings about something — it’s really hard. It requires being really intentional and thoughtful constantly, because we’re constantly being barraged by all of this news and information.

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