I’ve been reading about kids and their addiction to social media and short form video (Insta reels, YouTube videos, etc). My oldest hasn’t ever been much for social media and mostly just plays chess on his phone. But D26 will scroll for hours. I do think there are impacts to mental health, anxiety, etc. Yesterday we were chatting about it and I offered her $100/week if she would stop scrolling- take Instagram off her phone (temporarily), not look at dumb cat videos, etc. I told her music and books online were fine. She didn’t want to give it up because of her fantasy football league..lol. Even if I made an exception for that, I still think she’d have a difficult time ditching the dopamine hits of reels. It’s frustrating, and I’d like to set her up for healthy habits when she goes off to college. Her argument is that she’s in school for 8 hours a day, does 2-3 hours of homework per night, does college essays and homework on weekends and needs time to unwind, and that’s her preferred method of decompressing.