Entertainment culture is rewiring our brains to be more broad and less deep.
Kids who are not developmentally ready for what the mainstream media has to offer are the ones most at risk. This means it’s the parent’s job to decide what a child can watch or play. At every age, there are appropriate activities. This list is excerpted from The Bullying Antidote: Superpower Your Kids for Life, Chapter 18, “Swept Away by Technology”, and the suggestions are compiled by various expert sources, from the American Academy of Pediatrics to Common Sense Media.
“Parents assume that items sold in stores are safe, and they trust objects other parents purchase or allow in their homes. Aside from game and movie ratings, the virtual world doesn’t come with warning labels. In late 2021, the Office of the Surgeon General reported that young people have shown alarming increases in mental health challenges: one in three high school students and half of all female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. This is nearly twice what was reported a decade before, when mobile phones were not yet ubiquitous. The Covid-19 pandemic just made things worse.” — from The Winning Family: Where No One Has to Lose, Chapter 27, “Guidance in the Digital Age” p. 249
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