When Caron Morse’s 9-year-old daughter requested for a smartphone final yr, her response, she informed me, was unambiguous: "A tough hell no." Morse is a mental-health supplier within the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and he or she was firmly towards smartphones, having seen how social media and ample display time may shorten college students’ consideration spans and provides them new anxieties. However she wished her kids to have some independence-to be capable to name buddies, organize playdates, and attain out to their grandparents on their very own. She additionally wanted a break. "I used to be so sick," she mentioned, "of being the…
