How Smartphone Use Is Harming Children: Clare Morell

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"What the smartphone tells us is that life is about your own personal entertainment, that it's actually about instant gratification, that you can entertain yourself away from all of life's problems, and that you don't actually have to exert self-control and wait for something, like practicing delayed gratification.

The entire device is instant gratification, constant, endless, infinite entertainment. You can be constantly amused. This is new. If you think of prior generations, they had a television. They couldn't carry their television with them everywhere.

But now with the smartphone, we are losing that ability to actually be able to learn delayed gratification, to actually view self-control or self-discipline as a value."

Clare Morell is the author of "The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones”