And by handing our kids screens, we are choosing “not to parent.”PhotoRiley advocates radically scaling back children’s screen time, and intensively surveilling online behavior. “Many kids will be fine even without these restrictions, and some kids will fall into trouble even with them. The hours kids spend on devices is time they could have spent reading, studying, interacting with other humans or frolicking outdoors (there’s a bit of nature worship in Riley’s book). Modern parents spend far more time with their children than parents did in the 1960s. The biggest reason I hear for why kids don’t spend more time on devices isn’t that screens are terrible; it’s that they don’t have time.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2018 23:01 UTC