The Terrible Costs of a Phone-based Childhood (gift link)

While I completely agree with the negative aspects of phone culture, it doesn’t stop there. Personally, I think our snowplow parenting culture has also had a lot to do with undermining our kids’ confidence and ability to problem solve. By doing “for them” (exhibit 1: the extent to which the college search is managed by parents) we’ve taken something away.

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