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How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation

Smartphones are trust blockers for parents

“One time when I went to pick up Sean from wrestling, I wanted to figure out which door he’d be coming out of at the high school,” my friend Nancy McDermott told me when I asked whether the phone had changed her as a mom. A few years back I read an article someone wrote about raising Free-Range Kids that interviewed a mom who loved her long hours alone at the creek as a child – an experience she wanted to give her own daughter. Gizmo watches actually give parents the power to listen in on their child’s life, like a bugging device, and I’m sure some have heard their kids using bad words, or being mean.

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