I did read the article and saw the author blaming themselves and calling themselves bad parents.

It's not all their fault. They're fighting an asymmetric war. Millions of parents are.

Oh, you read the article where a mother repeatedly says her 11 year old daughter is just like a crack addict because she prefers being on her phone to making her bed? The article where the mother admits to going into fits of rage and punishes the 11 year old child for doing nothing that isn't normally tolerated even in this already very strict household? The article where this mother of an 11 year old blames nothing but the phone for the fact that this girl entering into adolescence behaves differently than when she was a child?

No, this article was written by a narcissist who can't handle her little girl growing up and rather than dealing with it in a healthy way is instead raging against an inanimate object.

Nine hours on a phone during the day is normal for an eleven year old? That sounds like a problem.

Having never been an 11 year old girl in a pandemic, I can't really speak to what "normal" is. Based on the the girl's behavior as described in the article, it certainly has had no noticeable negative effects.

It's not about the pandemic, it's not even about phones but about the technology/software running on them that turn them into skinner boxes.

It's not about the concerts, it's not even about the guitars, it's about the music played on them that turns kids into satanists.

If covid happened in 1990, we'd all be on our land lines for 9 hours a day, and there would be nothing wrong with that either.

I'm not a conservative and grew up listening to the music others where considering bad and were on the other side of the fence, they were an outdated generation in my eyes then.

Now as I got older I realize a lot of it was just crap stuffed into our faces keeping us from discovering the real good artists out there. Those folks did have a point here and there. A lot of that music was pumped by the music industry purely to make money and similarly this addictive software is doing the same thing with amplified effects and more shamelessness.