The Kids Are Not All Right
posted 2011 Aug by natalie sampila
By JOEL BAKAN Published: August 21, 2011
Vancouver, British Columbia WHEN I sit with my two teenagers, and they are a million miles away,
absorbed by the titillating roil of online social life, the addictive
pull of video games and virtual worlds, as they stare endlessly at video
clips and digital pictures of themselves and their friends, it feels
like something is wrong.
No doubt my parents felt similarly about the things I did as a kid, as
did my grandparents about my parents’ childhood activities. But the
issues confronting parents today can’t be dismissed as mere generational
prejudices. There is reason to believe that childhood itself is now in
crisis. If you would like to read more of this article please click here to go to the New York Times site.