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The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

Jonathan Haidt theatlantic.com

When it was carried into schools in the early 2010s, on smartphones in students’ pockets, it quickly changed the culture for everyone. (Communication networks rapidly become more powerful as they grow.[16]) Students talked to each other less between classes, at recess, and at lunch, because they began to spend much of that time checking their phone