>but it feels like kids would rather use a phone or a tablet to do anything Easy is the enemy of Good. People opt for the easy and lazy way, because learning

>but it feels like kids would rather use a phone or a tablet to do anything Easy is the enemy of Good. People opt for the easy and lazy way, because learning is hard. Kids, encouraged to learn the hard things, become better and better at making those hard things easier for themselves. Kids, encouraged only to do the bare-minimum, 'easy approach' to things, only learn how to avoid doing anything hard. Disclaimer: anecdotal parent experience. Its always better to learn how to do things the hard way than the easy way.