The Big 16-Year-Old Bluff: We Ban Kids from Social Media So They Don't Look at Our Screens (And the Dog Gets Depressed)
There's a great, reassuring myth that we adults love to tell ourselves before bed—strictly with our smartphones on the nightstand: "Young people today are lost in a screen; we need to save them from themselves." We lull ourselves into this generational superiority, convinced that our birth certificate automatically awards us the title of "village wise men." The answer of…
