The Problem of Tech for Kids.

There is a new countervailing view about the damage done by smart phones for kids in the May issue of The Atlantic. In it, Candice L. Odgers directly refutes almost all the arguments made by Johnathan Haidt in The Anxious Generation. But she does not address the individual age specificity discussed by Haidt, nor the compelling evidence that there has been a dramatic increase in teen mental illness and suicides. Now I am a bit confused; perhaps there is some reason for optimism, but I think Haidt would win the argument if it were a debate topic.