As Time Warner Cable News continues its Fit Kids February coverage, a popular podcast is encouraging families to rethink and try to cut down their smartphone usage. Our tech reporter Adam Balkin filed this report.

Using our cell phones - almost all of us do it constantly. Almost all of us would like to do it less, but believe it would be almost impossible.

In an effort to help us all reevaluate our relationship with technology, radio station WNYC recently issued a nationwide challenge via its New Tech City podcast, asking listeners to take on one new tech habit a day for a week that would help wean them off their mobile device. For example, one day, no photos, another day, delete that one app you know just saps way too much of your time.

“Did we revamp our phone habits in one week? No. The average was six minutes less on our phone per day,” says “New Tech City” host Manoush Zomorodi. “But what I found interesting is  90 percent of people responded in a survey that we did saying that they want to continue to do this somehow."

While many of us may want to limit our cell phone use for our own personal reasons, it turns out there may be some real science behind why all of us really should limit our cell phone use.

It is actually the motivator behind the challenge called “Bored and Brilliant: The Lost Art of Spacing Out." Is it bad that we all reach for our phone almost instantly the moment boredom strikes?

“I spoke to neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists and they said yeah, actually when you get bored, that’s when your mind goes into something called “mind wandering.” They call this the ‘default mode.’ It’s a network in your brain where you do your most original thinking, where you come up with novel ideas, where you do your problem solving," says Zomorodi.

WNYC says several universities, grade schools, and parents have contacted them about using this challenge on a regular basis. Maybe you’d like too as well, so New Tech City wrapped it up into one nice, easy to follow program, which you can find at NewTechCity.com/bored.