My wife and I raised three daughters, all of whom are in their 20's now. Their generation went from no home Internet in the mid-90's to smart phones in their po

My wife and I raised three daughters, all of whom are in their 20's now. Their generation went from no home Internet in the mid-90's to smart phones in their pockets today. As parents we struggled like everyone simply because we didn't know what was right. I would describe the phases we went through as something like: uncertainty combined with attempts at control, followed by a loss of any illusion of control as the channels proliferated. I specifically came to feel that we were experiencing a grand and fundamental change in human society and that anything I tried to do to stand as a filter between the girls and the rest of the world that was now pouring in would do more harm than good. In the end, they all came through it fine. I won't rattle off metrics of their normality, but they are doing fine, along with all the others of their generation that we came to know over the years. Being human they proved impressively adaptable in the face of change, even high-velocity vertigo-inducing change. As for my wife and I, we still don't know how much technology and information is the right amount, at home or in schools. In fact the only thing I think we learned on that score is how much we didn't know, how much we still don't know, and how terribly weak our ability to predict how any of this will work out is. Probably parents felt similarly 30 or 40 years after the invention of printed material, or radio, or phones. Regardless, the genie is well out of the bottle.