No Phones Before High School? #substack #shorts

He talks about how parents have overprotected their children in the real world, and they're overprotecting their children from the physical world where children actually need to be going out and socializing with children and adults of different ages and learning, learning socialization, not through hanging out with their parents, but through actually going out in the wild and experiencing other, other people and other kids. And parents have been underprotecting their children in the digital world. And that has led to this erosion of the play-based childhood and the, and this exponential amplification of a phone-based childhood. And, uh, in the book, if you saw me flipping around earlier, it was, I was searching for this, this chapter, The Task of Adolescence. And in it, I include Jonathan Haidt's The Four New Norms for, for children, which is no smartphones before high school is number one, no social media before 16, the compare and despair