The Dangers of Distracted Parenting [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/18/184:00 AM

Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle—that it almost seems easier to list the things they don’t mess up than the things they do. Our society may be reaching peak criticism of digital devices.

[For more of this story, written by Erika Christakis, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...ed-parenting/561752/]

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