Parents are making safety decisions based on anxiety not reality, restricting movement in the physical world while enabling unfiltered access to the digital one
You and Jon Haidt have opened many eyes to what's really going on with children, and adults, for that matter. We had so much more freedom in our younger years, and no devices except the TV, and even that was limited to a few channels and wasn't on 24 hours a day.
Great topic, Robert. It’s an issue that’s going to have long‑term ripple effects. The instinct to protect our kids isn’t new, but the landscape,and the types of risks they face, definitely are. An unsupervised child on an iPad is exposed to far more potential harm than the classic “stranger danger” we grew up hearing about.
Combined with the social, mental, and physical downsides of excessive screen time, the actions to limit children's freedom to explore is misguided.
excellent post on a topic that needs reframing of what safety really means...thank you
As a parent of course you worry. If
You’re scared they will be abducted, well my kids took Krav Maga for years…
You and Jon Haidt have opened many eyes to what's really going on with children, and adults, for that matter. We had so much more freedom in our younger years, and no devices except the TV, and even that was limited to a few channels and wasn't on 24 hours a day.
Great topic, Robert. It’s an issue that’s going to have long‑term ripple effects. The instinct to protect our kids isn’t new, but the landscape,and the types of risks they face, definitely are. An unsupervised child on an iPad is exposed to far more potential harm than the classic “stranger danger” we grew up hearing about.
Combined with the social, mental, and physical downsides of excessive screen time, the actions to limit children's freedom to explore is misguided.