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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Head over to the college forum…pressure in this area is ridiculous. Parents freaking out and giving kids the message that they have to attend prestigious schools.  And it starts before high school.  My kid is in AAP and talks about how her classmates’ parents tell them they have to get into Algebra by 7th, they need to go to a magnet school.  One of her friends is fretting over college in 6th grade!  This area is intense.  And even if you don’t buy into it as a parent, kids pick it up from peers.  [/quote]

It’s insane here, I agree, but there are other pressures in other places: opioids, lack of lgbtq+ acceptance and social acceptance is focused on who your grandmother went to high school with.[/quote]

I live in a small city where there is almost no pressure to attend prestigious schools. Opioids are not a huge issue here, it’s fine to be lgbtq+ (If not preferable) and no one cares where your grandmother went to high school, at least in public school. Our kids are still sad. The ones I know have the most issues are 100% addicted to their cellphones and/or video games. [/quote]
+1 ITA.. it's the social media and/or video games.  Basically, these kids are becoming increasingly socially isolated.

I went through a period of social isolation back in the 80s/early 90s. Obviously we didn't have social media, and I didn't have video games at home.  It was a really difficult time, and there were times when I felt suicidal.  Oh, and I was a church goer, but even then, I felt isolated.  Even church goers can feel isolated, which is why pastors encourage people to get connected in a church group.

I read an article about how sales of dumb phones have gone up because people have started to realize that they are addicted to social media.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168

[quote]One maker of dumbphones is New York company Light Phone. Slightly more clever that the norm for such products, its handsets do allow users to listen to music and podcasts, and link by Bluetooth to headphones. Yet the firm pledges that its phones "will never have social media, clickbait news, email, an internet browser, or any other anxiety-inducing infinite feed".
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This is the kind of phone kids should have, but it's difficult because schools are increasingly putting everything online, too.

I have a love/hate relationship with the internet, and I work with a high tech internet company.[/quote]

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