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Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
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Kids need authority in their lives. Families need authority in order to function. But when parents abdicate their authority, a vacuum results. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Leonard Sax • The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
Raising your child to know and care about virtue and character is not a special extra credit assignment reserved for the superior parent. It is mandatory for all parents. And when you are given a mandatory assignment, you must do your best, regardless of your own short-comings.5 Regardless of whether your peers—other parents—are paying attention to
... See moreLeonard Sax • The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
We think social media has changed childhood and adolescence for the worse, so much so that it constitutes a “great rewiring of childhood.” Beginning in the 1990s, a childhood based heavily on outdoor play began to fade away and was replaced by a phone-based childhood in the early 2010s, when teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones.
Can we
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What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones
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