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On Thinking for Yourself: Instinct, Education, Dissension (Atlantic Editions)
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Most of the time the subjects we talk about are—for all of their flattening by cable news and internet wormholes and all the rest of it—extremely complicated.
Caitlin Flanagan • On Thinking for Yourself: Instinct, Education, Dissension (Atlantic Editions)
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
https://www.nytimes.com/by/emma-goldbergnytimes.com
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
It’s tempting to blame the highly surveilled nature of modern childhood on parents too neurotic to let their children out of sight. But according to Gill, the “gradual creeping lockdown” on kids is in part a reflection of the built environment they occupy.