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Kids Want Friendship and Freedom, by Emmy Griffin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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How do we detach our children from their devices? Well, they’ve told us. They want community with friends and freedom from constant parental supervision.

Jonathan Haidt, professor of social psychology at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business, is a crusader for getting kids off screens. As a front-line witness to his students’ social shift from friend groups to being utterly lost in the online world, he has advocated for getting cellphones out of schools. In his most recent published research with Zach Rausch, an NYU colleague, and Lenore Skenazy, co-founder of the nonprofit Let Grow, whose mission is to promote childhood independence, the trio teamed up with Harris Poll to find out what kids desire as an alternative to being on their phones.

The survey solicited answers from 500 participants ages 8-12. Most of them had access to a cellphone, and almost all of them had a friend who was on social media. Each of the children was asked how he or she prefers to spend time with friends: unstructured play, organized activities, or online. The clear winner was unstructured play. More importantly, children wanted freedom from helicopter parenting, which they have only been able to find through online gaming and social media. …

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