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Children have the right to interact and move through the real world for the majority of their day. It’s how they learn the complex task of being human. As Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains , says, Internet use reinforces distractedness. Being distracted, Carr says, means we’re more likely to follow the crowd, skip original thought, and have a harder time feeling empathy and compassion.

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Heather Shumaker

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It’s OK To Go Up The Slide

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