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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article sounds like every "scare tactic" article from the past.

Rock & Roll is Hurting Your Kids
Dancing is Hurting Your Kids
Fraternizing with the Black Kids is Hurting Your Kids
TV is Hurting Your Kids
MTV is Hurting Your Kids
The Simpsons is Hurting Your Kids
Video Games are Hurting Your Kids
Marilyn Mason is Hurting Your Kids
The Internet is Hurting Your Kids

Rinse, repeat.  [/quote]

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The same mainstream magazines that pump out these articles today about cell phones were railing against rock music, tv and integration of schools back in the day.

Also, teen depression is not on the rise. Teen depression has always been under reported.
What is on the rise is that teens are more comfortable now discussing depression and mental health issues out loud and asking for help. [/quote]

You do realize there is a list of things we used to routinely let our kids do that we actually realized were unsafe and bad ideas and most people thus ceased?

Child labor is hurting your kids.
Driving without a proper car seat is hurting your kids.
Sleeping on your stomach is killing your infant.
Smoking is killing your kid.
Riding without a seatbelt is killing your kid.

We really don't know much about smart phones at this point as they've only been around for 10 years and ubiquitous for 5 - in retrospect it is hard to believe that people didn't realize seatbelts were a good idea but having babies sleep on their back was not so obvious.  While there is some thus unproven alarmism around phones (brain cancer and LED lights) there is no info whatsoever I'm aware of on the impacts on kids behaviors and socialization.

And some really poor attempts at equivalency in the above posts.  TV in fact is really not good for our kids and I think most people agree now that institutionalized segregation is bad.  There are lots of things on your list that are not really harmful per se (MTV and the Simpsons) but about which it is also pretty hard to take seriously the notion that there is anything good.

And the comparison to cultural shifts like music is laughable.[/quote]

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