JOHAN STEYN: Children pay a high price for digital babysitters
Two books explore how social media diminishes our ability to concentrate and contributes to rising anxiety
28 August 2024 - 05:00
As a parent of a young child in the digital age, I’m worried about how constant connectivity and digital devices are affecting our ability to focus and our children’s mental health.
I often find myself questioning whether I’m inadvertently outsourcing parts of parenthood to screens. I jokingly say that children have not truly grown up unless they have fallen out of a tree at least once. Are kids missing out on essential childhood experiences because of technology?..
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