Screens are a proximate cause, not the underlying problem: as others have pointed out, children are just as social as we are. If being behind a screen is how th

Screens are a proximate cause, not the underlying problem: as others have pointed out, children are just as social as we are. If being behind a screen is how they obtain those social experiences, then the corrective action isn’t to remove them but to augment them in a way they ultimately find more appealing. The article’s observation about suburban design is spot-on insofar as suburbs have both trended towards architectural and cultural insularity.