The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.

[kirtland r.m.]

The times they are a changing...Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? "a 21-year-old student in San Diego told me. “I didn’t get my license until my mom told me I had to because she could not keep driving me to school.” She finally got her license six months after her 18th birthday. In conversation after conversation, teens described getting their license as something to be nagged into by their parents—a notion that would have been unthinkable to previous generations."https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... on/534198/

[kittycat51]

Excellent article! I totally agree with it. I can see this with my own children. I know that my daughter in law's obsession with social media has made her clinically depressed. (She ALWAYS is on her phone) I can see my youngest also suffer from phone addiction, and because of it, he just seems sad a lot. I have set limits as to when the phone needs to be on the charger in the KITCHEN at night (No phones in bedrooms at night) but still he will sneak every second he can with his phone. I really feel like throwing his phone at the wall and smashing it sometimes. It is indeed frustrating to be with family on Sundays (married kids come home for dinner etc) and still see half the room staring down at their phones instead of engaging with each other. It REALLY IS A PROBLEM. I was one that held out forever it seems on getting a smart phone. My claim was I didn't need the distraction. Now that I have it, I honestly wish at times I could go back to my old "dumb flip phone".

[Michelle]

Excellent article! I totally agree with it. I can see this with my own children. I know that my daughter in law's obsession with social media has made her clinically depressed. (She ALWAYS is on her phone) I can see my youngest also suffer from phone addiction, and because of it, he just seems sad a lot. I have set limits as to when the phone needs to be on the charger in the KITCHEN at night (No phones in bedrooms at night) but still he will sneak every second he can with his phone. I really feel like throwing his phone at the wall and smashing it sometimes. It is indeed frustrating to be with family on Sundays (married kids come home for dinner etc) and still see half the room staring down at their phones instead of engaging with each other. It REALLY IS A PROBLEM. I was one that held out forever it seems on getting a smart phone. My claim was I didn't need the distraction. Now that I have it, I honestly wish at times I could go back to my old "dumb flip phone".

I went back. It bothers some people for a moment, but they quickly go back to sleep.

Here's where I got mine. Cheapest phone plans as well. I pay under $70 a month total for 4 phones (3 flip, one smart) talk, text and data.

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