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I think that aligns with their third point on motivation.

I just started doing this last week, it has saved us from so many breakdowns.

Not in this case, if they're at the supreme court, everyone has exhausted all appeals.

In Germany, being a teacher is the best job you can have.

I just commented the same thing - parents are a major problem right now.

There's much more to this story. My mother, a high school calculus teacher for the last 22 years is so ready to retire.

I didn't think my mom would ever retire, she spends countless hours coming up with unique lesson plans for the kids - they usually involve games, real world use cases and many ah-ha moments. She lives for those moments when a kid lights up when they understand the value of what their learning.

Now though, over the last 8 years, she told me that parents have ruined the job she loves. Especially now that she has to post everyone's grades online, instantly emails roll in when a student didn't perform as well as the parent expected.

She told me of an email she received that said "X is trying to get into Princeton - an A- isn't going to get her in. What extra credit can she do to make this an A?".

It's endless and my mom, for fear of a lawsuit, doesn't know what to do. The teachers union in Massachusetts made all the teachers sign liability waivers and arbitration waivers if a lawsuit happens. My mom is scared stiff and either bends over, or doesn't and let's the vice principal or principal take the heat, ultimately it leading to an extra credit assignment.

My mom's job sounds miserable and if you were to ask me 15 years ago, what I might do in my retirement - I would have said taught CS at a disadvantaged high school. Now though, I'm seconding guessing that retirement plan.

In the wiki article and in the tribute article linked (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-11-15-961115...), it doesn't really give any insight on why it was a 'disaster'. Have anymore to share? I'm really interested.

It's this - the margins are so slim on commercial farming that they are in the grocer range (1-7%) and the only way grocers make money is on volume.

The one-off farms are great for those that can spend extra but they are not the ones feeding America right now.

Real life Will Hunting...?

There's a lot of room for error in this study - I wouldn't draw any conclusions based on this.

It's new, passive screen time and active screen time are getting a lot of attention in the pediatrics community.

Really well written article, especially as someone who is interested in the topic but not an expert.

This is a slippery slope, most parents already do heavy comparisons with their child to others. When there are differences and the parent isn't educated on norms you introduce a lot of self doubt and anxiety.

Somewhat - parents want to act and help but it's hard when the technology geared towards kids is creating problems parents don't yet know how to face.

This is new grounds so I wouldn't dismiss the problem as simple scapegoating but rather parents need to understand why and how this technology is affecting their kids.

You're missing the point - it's not the physical device that the parents are fighting, it's what the device is doing to the child. They took it away and she threatened to kill herself.

This story, for you (as a soon to be parent) and for me (a new parent) might be great timing - it certainly makes me never want to get my child a cell phone that could even start them down this path.

> I also see far too many boys whose gaming obsessions lead them to forgo interest in school, extracurricular activities, and anything else productive. Some of these boys, as they reach their later teens, use their large bodies to terrorize parents who attempt to set gaming limits. A common thread running through many of these cases is parent guilt, as so many are certain they did something to put their kids on a destructive path.

This was me. I was 14, my parents just divorced and I got hooked on Starcraft in 1999. I would play until the sun came up, go to school and sleep through class. I did it for 3 years straight, with varying levels of addiction.

At some point, my mom wanted me to see a pyschologist but I tried to show her I wasn't addicted. I took the cd out of the computer, cut it up and glued it to a piece of paper. I hung that paper on the corkboard for all to see, then, not 5 days later I bought another cd and started the cycle again.

I don't know if I was reeling with teenager angst or overloaded emotions because of the divorce but I needed help and my parents didn't know what to do. I nearly didn't finish high school because of it.

Now, with a son of my own - I am constantly thinking about how in the world do I expose my son to technology but also teach him moderation. I don't want to have a fight about how much time is too much, I simply want the technology to be useful to solve a problem and not something my son feels compelled to use all day long.

Wonderful read, there was a lot of history there I didn't know

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I always assumed the word gap was because of conversation, not that high income earners were reading a dictionary aloud.

That said, are high income earners more available for conversation? Seems like a good question for economic researchers within child development.

What's the SF -> Newark connection I'm missing?

I think that's mysnomer https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/11/30/the-gre...

Why does it need to be competitive? Do you need 1000 students to pay $100,000 or 100,000 students to pay $1,000? Education can scale at the college level

If I can summarize,

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott

Those towns exist all over, but I agree suburbia for our generation is not as attractive for other reasons.

Personally, I want to raise our son in a suburb and my wife doesn't. I do because my childhood was great in suburbia but there are major family and career trade-offs to do so.

Here's a leading early childhood development pediatrician commenting on this exact point https://youtu.be/BoT7qH_uVNo

Research is still really early but signs are showing an impact. Here's a leading early childhood development pediatrician https://youtu.be/BoT7qH_uVNo

Great points. We live 1000 miles from family and it has made it much more difficult on us

I think I would have met the qualifications for this as a 14 year old. My parents were going through a bad divorce and I spent all my time playing StarCraft to cope.

I had all the signs of addiction, I stopped hanging out with friends, I stayed awake all night, ate poorly and gave up in school. More than once I recognized my issue and smashed the CD, even one time glued it to a piece of paper and put it on our bulletin board for my mom to see. Two weeks later I'd be back playing at 3am.

I needed help but I don't think my parents knew what to do.

That was a good read, thanks for sharing this.

That's true until you decide to delete tests/code that is no longer in use. Then it becomes much more difficult to track down dead code paths