Helping Teens Break Free of Their Smartphones

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Imagine the best memories of your youth. Now imagine all of them replaced by a screen. Unless we can outsmart phones, this will be reality for a generation.

It seems like millennials are always texting, swiping, browsing, Snapchatting, Instagramming, or wasting time in some other way on a device, and dinosaurs like me have been quick to complain about it. But it turns out millennials, most of whom remember cassette tapes and graduated high school with flip phones, were old enough to ride the technological wave of the 2010s without getting sucked under.

Writing at The Atlantic, Jean Twenge points out that there's another, younger generation that got pummeled by the smartphone revolution.

Read more at: http://www.christianpost.com/news/rescuing-igen-teens-raised-on-smartphones-need-an-escape-plan-196420/

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