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[quote=Anonymous]By 9th grade, all of modern social life is on the phone. I'll ask my HS DD if she wants to meet her friends at the mall. Round 'em up, I'll drop you off for a few hours. She'll say, "Why?" She's been talking all morning with her friends by text, so she's all caught up on their latest. Plus, getting her friends' parents to agree to allow their 15 and 16-year-olds to spend the afternoon together walking around the mall would require three days and five committees to discuss, and in the end it wouldn't happen, anyway. It's just a waste of time trying to get parents to agree to it. So it's a combo of tech use AND helicopter parenting not giving teens any space to do the things that their parents so freely did as teens. Their phones are their social life lines. That's just the way it is now.[/quote]
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