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Feb 2Liked by Marco Fioretti

Agreed!!

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This is a terrific article, Marco. You are SPOT ON about how parents can solve the terrible problem we're facing with kids and phones/social media. Exactly!! Great list of sources, too. Enjoyed the read. And thanks again for commenting on my piece, "More Than They Can Handle" https://raisingamericans.substack.com/p/more-than-they-can-handle

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thanks, and of course please pass it around as much as you can, in and outside Substack. We MUST achieve a critical mass on this.

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More proofs of what I said here, and arguments for it are now in this other post: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/smartphones-are-the-source-of-a-huge

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Children get around parental controls. Technology's shortcomings and unpredictable nature continues.

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of course children get around it. Literally "been there, done that" myself, as everybody else who is adult today.

That's why the ONLY solution that can work is to have no "it" to get around parents for. If the only way a child can access the internet is a traditional computer that is only available at home outside his own room, and is impossible to use outside the home, the problem becomes 100 times smaller, 100 times easier to deal with.

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