About three months ago, I bought a flip phone and turned off my smartphone for good. We banned phones outright, equipping classrooms with lockboxes that the kids call “cellphone prisons.” It’s not perfect, but it’s better. Chicago’s Compass Health Center has a Child Screen Dependence Program to help children “learn to tolerate periods of screen separation.” A Pennsylvania phone addiction …
A few years ago, I was sitting with my friends from high school one night when the topic of our tracked screen time came up. Apple introduced Screen Time as a built-in app in 2018 with the release of iOS 12, after major investors requested a tool that would help the company consider the effects of screen time on children’s …
It's hard in here for an extrovert. "I'm tired of awkward social chatter because honestly, there aren't many 'safe' topics and the feeling of obligation to attend each session, making sure I'm nodding and smiling at the right times, is taking away time from actually getting real work done," she added. "If I'm invited to another 'say coworker when talking …
