It’s an enduring social image of our age: Groups of kids who sit beside each other or at round tables, not making eye contact with humans but only with the screens they hold. There’s no conversation. Only the silent movement of fingers and the glow...
Even before “sitterphones” (using a smartphone to entertain a young child), even before tablets, there was television, what one media expert called “the flickering blue parent.” Recently a landmark study tracked the effect of television on developing brains, and the...