We grew up before screens took over. Our kids deserve that chance too
As I scroll through Instagram reels romanticizing life in the late 1990s and early 2000s — girls gathered around a boombox at a sleepover, kids riding bikes until the streetlights came on and teenagers hanging out at the mall instead of staring at their phones — I'm struck by the irony: I have to browse social media to recall what life felt like before it took over.Millennials may have been the last generation to grow up with technology instead of growing up inside it. We had family computers, Nintendo 64, DVDs, flip phones and, eventually, iPods, but those tools occupied a place in our lives rather than becoming the center of them.Technology made our lives easier.
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As I scroll through Instagram reels romanticizing life in the late 1990s and early 2000s — girls gathered around a boombox at a sleepover, kids riding bikes until the streetlights came on and teenagers hanging out at the mall instead of staring at their phones — I'm struck by the irony: I have to browse social media to recall what life felt like before it took over.Millennials may have been the last generation to grow up with technology instead of growing up inside it. We had family computers, Nintendo 64, DVDs, flip phones and, eventually, iPods, but those tools occupied a place in our lives rather than becoming the center of them.Technology made our lives easier. It just hadn’t become our childhood.CONTROVERSIAL STREAMER CLAVICULAR EXPLAINS VIRAL 'LOOKSMAXXING' TREND AS GEN Z ADOPTS EXTREME REGIMENInterim U.S. Stephanie Haridopolos recently warned that early and excessive screen time in young children can delay attention, memory and language development.
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- As I scroll through Instagram reels romanticizing life in the late 1990s and early 2000s — girls gathered around a boombox at a sleepover, kids riding bikes until the streetlights came on and teenagers hanging out at the mall instead of staring at their phones — I'm struck by the irony: I have to browse social media to recall what life felt like before it took over.Millennials may have been the last generation to grow up with technology instead of growing up inside it. We had family computers, Nintendo 64, DVDs, flip phones and, eventually, iPods, but those tools occupied a place in our lives rather than becoming the center of them.Technology made our lives easier.
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