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And first, lead by example. If the parents cannot help looking at their phone every 5 minutes, how are the children supposed to act?

nothing they see on a screen is real

This is just as irrational as believing anything on a screen is real.

Read some Plato. Preferably with your kids, while they're at an impressionable age.

Stop posturing. You know perfectly well that screens present true as well as false information and media literacy is a matter of distinguishing between the two rather than making categorical assumptions.

Frankly you come off a lot more like Diogenes than Plato.

I agree about the parenting piece. But social media usage spiked for youths when children were given powerful computers in their pockets they have 24/7 access to. I'd argue it's a technical problem as much as a social one. Geofencing social media in public schools seems appropriate. My comment on wifi or cell jamming was hyperbolic.