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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone.
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      Martin Leicht on 16 Aug 17
       
      A challenge for certain, to parents, teens/students, and the community on the whole.
  • Today’s teens are also less likely to date.
  • Even driving, a symbol of adolescent freedom inscribed in American popular culture,
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  • Independence isn’t free—you need some money in your pocket to pay for gas, or for that bottle of schnapps.
  • But iGen teens aren’t working (or managing their own money) as much.
  • Across a range of behaviors—drinking, dating, spending time unsupervised— 18-year-olds now act more like 15-year-olds used to, and 15-year-olds more like 13-year-olds. Childhood now stretches well into high school.
  • n an information economy that rewards higher education more than early work history, parents may be inclined to encourage their kids to stay home and study rather than to get a part-time job. Teens, in turn, seem to be content with this homebody arrangement—not because they’re so studious, but because their social life is lived on their phone. They don’t need to leave home to spend time with their friends.
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      Martin Leicht on 17 Aug 17
       
      "may be inclined" - the author puts a lot on this statement as a possible source for this challenge we face. Parents rely no data trends get get their kids to stay home and study. I am sorry, the point may be true, yet I find it questionable parenting.
  • this means iGen teens have more leisure time than Gen X teens did, not less.
  • It’s not only a matter of fewer kids partying; fewer kids are spending time simply hanging out.
  • Teens who spend more time than average on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities are more likely to be happy.
  • Of course, these analyses don’t unequivocally prove that screen time causes unhappiness; it’s possible that unhappy teens spend more time online. But recent research suggests that screen time, in particular social-media use, does indeed cause unhappiness.
  • This doesn’t always mean that, on an individual level, kids who spend more time online are lonelier than kids who spend less time online
  • The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.
  • One piece of data that indirectly but stunningly captures kids’ growing isolation, for good and for bad: Since 2007, the homicide rate among teens has declined, but the suicide rate has increased. As teens have started spending less time together, they have become less likely to kill one another, and more likely to kill themselves.
  • This trend has been especially steep among girls. Forty-eight percent more girls said they often felt left out in 2015 than in 2010, compared with 27 percent more boys
Martin Leicht

Read This Story Without Distraction (Can You?) - The New York Times - 0 views

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      Unless of course the task is tortuous, then we are prone to look for distraction. We would rather help others work on this tortuous task.
  • by doing more you’re getting less done.
  • were enough to double the number of errors participants made in an assigned task
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  • interruptions as brief as two to three seconds
  • It’s a digital literacy skill
  • paying attention
  • If I keep looking at my phone or my inbox or various websites, working feels a lot more tortuous. When I’m focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.”
  • monotasking is “something that needs to be practiced.
  • humans have finite neural resources that are depleted every time we switch between tasks
  • Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness,
  • I just stuff my brain full of them because I can’t manage to do anything else,” she said. “The sad thing is that I don’t get any closer to deciding which one I like.”
  • That’s why you feel tired at the end of the day
  • Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it
  • The more we allow ourselves to be distracted from a particular activity, the more we feel the need to be distracted.
  • Research shows that just having a phone on the table is sufficiently distracting to reduce empathy and rapport between two people who are in conversation
  • After spending a few days hiking in the Arctic by myself, I was able to get all of them done in just a few days.”
  • Start by giving yourself just one morning a week to check in, and remind yourself what it feels like to do one thing at a time
  • Practice how you listen to people
  • Put down anything that’s in your hands and turn all of your attentional channels to the person who is talking
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Screen time and children - How to guide your child - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

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shared by Martin Leicht on 01 Oct 16 - No Cached
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      Martin Leicht on 01 Oct 16
       
      Involvement! It's all about involvement with your kids. It always has, we just conveniently forgot it with the advent of Smart Phones & Tablets.
  • Experts noted that children are still doing the same things that they've always done — only now they are often doing them virtually.
  • This means playing with your child, teaching kindness, being involved, and knowing your child's friends and what your child does with them.
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