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Researcher Jonathan Haidt advocates for children not having a smartphone until age 16.

https://fortune.com/well/article/rules-for-curbing-kid-smart...



What an insulting and futile approach. You'd think a trained psychologist would know better than to think kids wouldn't a) find this laughable b) develop a severe and justified resentment and c) find a way around their comparatively less-tech-minded parents' arbitrary restrictions. I don't know his background, but it reeks of a person who "studies" kids instead of actually working with them.




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