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Re:Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smar... by blackeyeblitzar on Sunday April 21, 2024 @11:05AM (#40106310)
I guess my observation is that most parents, even competent ones, fail to get this right and end up with phone or tablet addicted children. Maybe there is some approach that teaches them a better way, but I wonder if avoiding devices entirely is a less risky path if you aren’t confident in your ability to teach them how to use devices.

> This is the result of my international teaching of my daughter about how we interact with devices.

Do you mean like exposure to how different cultures live with technology?

Re:Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smar... by forgetfreeman on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:21PM (#40107941)
There's an assumption lurking here that I feel needs to be dragged out into the open. This entire line of reasoning assumes that there is something teachable that would circumvent screen addiction, with a secondary assumption that kids are programmable and will accept whatever instruction is provided regardless of competing inputs. This seems questionable that a child can be armed to compete against a couple decades of psyops research by some of the best funded private organizations on the planet.