Sept. 11, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| What I also try to explain to parents and and for adults ourselves that the technology itself conveys a certain message. | |
| Like the medium is the message. | |
| And 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 like instant gratification, constant, endless, infinite entertainment. | |
| You can be constantly amused. | |
| I mean, this is new. | |
| Like if you think of prior de generations, like 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 like be able to learn delayed gratification, to actually view self-control or self-discipline as a value. | |
| Just thinking about what you're trying to train your child in, right? | |
| I think most parents recognize I'm trying to train my child in self-control and not acting on every impulse and learning patience and frustration tolerance and delayed gratification. | |
| The device just undermines all of that because it's teaching a child that they can be constantly entertained. | |
| They don't even have to learn how to entertain themselves. | |
| They don't even have to learn how to be alone with their thoughts. | |
| Like there's no space for solitude or reflection. | |
| And so it really is undermining kids' ability to think deeply, to be self-reflective, to be self-disciplined. | |
| And that's just the nature of the technology. | |
| Forget about whatever contents on the screen or the time limits. |
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