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[quote=Anonymous]Increasingly I just think the best think all parents and schools can do, for kids of any gender, is take the screens away. Especially for elementary and middle school kids. Not saying no screens ever, they are a part of life. But serious limits. I think we should ditch 99% of the screens in elementary education -- the EdTech schools are using is leading to a shallow grasp on fundamentals anyway, because there's too little direct engagement with the material and they need to be talking it through and frankly struggling more. Especially in math.

But I think boys need it more than girls right now because the retreat to screens in middle school appears to be worse for them and they seem to be engaging in ultimately more dangerous content. Yes, we should be paying more attention to the pressure on girls to look a certain way and how girls use social media in relational aggression, but I think boys are dealing with something much more dangerous. Isolation, bullying via video games, and predatory influencers on YouTube and Reddit using video content to warp and radicalize. It's scary.

And parents are NOT getting the message on screens. I mean, here I am on a screen and here you are too, so that's a big part of it -- we're all on screens too much. But so many of the parents I know don't think screens are a big deal or even believe that depriving their kids of screens or certain kinds of content will set their kids behind socially or even academically. It's wild. We need a much stronger campaign to restrict screens for kid between 0-13. And not just personal devices -- all access. Kids find ways to get around restrictions on school-owned devices, they will sneak parent devices. We need to be treating screens like drugs or alcohol for kids.[/quote]

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