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This is pretty radical, but what if, perhaps, the children touched grass instead of doom scrolling?

Lonely children aren’t the fault of the government, they’re the fault of parents who let them scroll TikTok in their rooms all day, because actually parenting would be difficult or inconvenient.

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> This is pretty radical, but what if, perhaps, the children touched grass instead of doom scrolling?

A simple solution would be:

  - measure the harmful effects of it if there are any, and make it public
  - tell parents to take away the kids phones while they are at home

There is absolutely no need to identify everyone on the internet, or forbid kids to talk to other kids.

- Harmful effects are known, that is why those laws are created.

- How is a parent going to take phones of their kid's friends? That is the main problem - your kid is going to be pressured to have a social media account. They even can have one on some old phone from their friend.

> That is the main problem - your kid is going to be pressured to have a social media account.

Indeed, that would be the goal, kids should be able talk to other kids their age.

The problem is, I believe, in the excessive phone and screen usage, but parents are easily able to control that (as opposed to smoking or drinking for example).

Excessive phone usage is only a minor part of the problem. Toxicity of social media is the main one.

Huh? In Norway? In what way?

Social media are made addictive, they often promote negative, often fake posts to drive their engagement goals.

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