Katherine thank you for your great post. Also, regarding safety, the fact that cellphones are tested by taking the temperature of on an inanimate plastic dummy head filed with the equivalent of jell-o, based on the measurements of a male military recruit's head, should render every parent absolutely apoplectic.
Thanks for the post. Smartphone are an alarming concern and has been for a while. If one truly thinks about it, who really needs them? It’s one of the great accomplishments of the tech world that they sold all of us on smartphones as indispensable. We all believed their claims of better connected societies but we ended up more fractured and frightened than ever. How sad. I wish for a world without smartphones and rightly regulated computers and internet.
A whole host of new dangers is right - including the wireless radiation that developing brains are exposed to, while changing their rhythms and thought patterns:
Great read! I couldn't agree more. We've been asking the wrong questions. Instead of asking "what age is good for a smartphone?", parents need to be asking, "IF a smartphone is good for my teenager." I explored that a bit here, from a Christian point of view: https://open.substack.com/pub/dearchristianparent/p/talking-to-teenagers?r=3huc9s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Katherine thank you for your great post. Also, regarding safety, the fact that cellphones are tested by taking the temperature of on an inanimate plastic dummy head filed with the equivalent of jell-o, based on the measurements of a male military recruit's head, should render every parent absolutely apoplectic.
Thanks for the post. Smartphone are an alarming concern and has been for a while. If one truly thinks about it, who really needs them? It’s one of the great accomplishments of the tech world that they sold all of us on smartphones as indispensable. We all believed their claims of better connected societies but we ended up more fractured and frightened than ever. How sad. I wish for a world without smartphones and rightly regulated computers and internet.
A whole host of new dangers is right - including the wireless radiation that developing brains are exposed to, while changing their rhythms and thought patterns:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/techmyth
Congrats on the new book Katherine!