Your kids are starving for psychological nutrients #shorts

The self determination theory is the most widely recognized, most widely studied and verified theory of human motivation that we know of. Self determination theory says that for human flourishing and well being, we essentially need what I've termed psychological nutrients. And they are competency, autonomy and relatedness. And if we don't, we have all kinds of problems. And so this is called the needs displacement hypothesis. The needs displacement hypothesis says that when you don't get enough nutrients in one area of your life, you're going to look for them in another area. What you will realize is going on is that the technology overuse is simply a symptom. It's not the disease. The disease is that our kids are increasingly starved of these three psychological nutrients.