By constantly texting their kids at school, parents are unwittingly stymying their children’s educational potential and failing to launch independent adults into the world, writes Jill Filipovic.
Hey, parents, leave your kids alone. That’s increasingly the message from educators, therapists, child development experts and even college professors and administrators who say that overly-involved parents are too technologically tethered to their kids and, as a result, are stymying their children’s educational potential and failing to launch independent adults into the world.
But the surveillance and micromanagement of children, including in the classroom, can send a message to kids that they are not capable of being independent people and are not capable of managing their own educations, conflicts and challenges. Part of the job of a parent is to equip children to go out in the world as independent, self-sufficient adults and that requires letting them experience hardship, pain, failure and disagreement.
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