"I think we need to stop and I'm not saying give kids unlimited access, but we have to stop obsessing over how much time. What are they doing online? And what is their time displacing?" she says. "Are they just passively consuming garbage"? Are they watching video clips of other people playing video games? They're missing out on something," he adds.
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