Consensus Emerging on Kids and Screens

[wisewomn]

This article was in today's Press Democrat. I hope all parents and people with children in their lives will read it and pass it on.

https://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.ne...gn=email+stats

Go to Section D, page 7.

[Barry]

This article was in today's Press Democrat. I hope all parents and people with children in their lives will read it and pass it on.

Go to Section D, page 7.

You can see this article on the New York Times here:


A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”

By Nellie Bowles
Oct. 26, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO — The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children anywhere near them.

A wariness that has been slowly brewing is turning into a regionwide consensus: The benefits of screens as a learning tool are overblown, and the risks for addiction and stunting development seem high. The debate in Silicon Valley now is about how much exposure to phones is O.K.

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