The Surprising Truth about Kids and Tech Time

So the first thing is to not guilt ourselves into thinking that, oh, my kid's in front of a screen. That's bad, right? There's a lot of good that comes from screen time. In fact, if you look at the demographic trends, all the bad stuff, and this is pre corona, of course, but all the bad stuff that kids used to do is at an all time low. We think about how, you know, kids are now, you know, the increased suicide rates, depression rates, and some of that is true. There's more intricacies to the data. But if you actually think of everything else, drug use, teen pregnancy, truancy, smoking, all of that stuff is at an all time low. This was the generation of the super predator. They built prisons all over the country because we thought there was going to be an explosion of crime. And it never happened. You know why? Because if you wanted to build a machine to keep kids off the streets, off the roads, and safe inside, guess what? Maybe this is not such a bad idea.