Parenting and Phones, an Empowering Approach

Wisdom from “Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)” by Emily Weinstein and Carrie James

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I am the father of a 14 year old, and it is wild. We have our good days and our bad ones, and the lockdown was hard for all of us, but I learn new stuff from my kid every single day.

I’ve been writing about the intersection of parenting and my kid’s digital life since she was two years old, and from the start, I’ve been clear on one thing: it’s impossible to completely control how my kid uses digital tech, and so the best I can hope for is to teach her to be as safe as possible, and to cultivate a trusting relationship with her so that when (not if) she gets in over her head, she’ll come to me so I can help her figure it out.

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Pluralistic: 19 May 2022

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Your mom is a tech ninja: Your boss? Not so much.
The impossible scam of US drug plans: Even the guy who invented them can't figure them out.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 03 Nov 2020

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Deep Reckonings: Using deepfakes to conjure a contrafactual reality in which monsters confront their legacies.
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: The limits of theory-free statistical inference.
How Audible robs indie audiobook creators: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Get an extra vote: Reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do.
A hopeful future: Optimism and pessimism are both fatalism.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
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Pluralistic: 09 Mar 2020

Today's links

Jesse Jackson endorses Sanders: "I stand with him because he stands with you."
Choose Your Own Adventure was Milton Friedman for Kids: There Is No Alternative.
Woman sues TSA over "pat-down" that penetrated her vagina: Las Vegas airport's finest.
Shat-out pig pedometer sparks farm-fire: Beyond Thunderdome, free range
UCSC strike prompts systemwide student and faculty solidarity strikes: Meanwhile, the regents are deporting striking TAs.
An open syllabus on "housing struggles": Detailed resources from the Pirate Care collective.
Yanis Varoufakis on how austerity leads to fascism: And how "constructive disobedience" can win support for alternatives.
John Deere is Right to Repair's archnemesis: Digital feudalism has reinvented the tenant farmer.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
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