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What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier?

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Impact of Social Media on Parenting

Theory is that you have a impact with the real world where you don't get a trophy every day at work and you know, and you actually have to earn your self esteem by doing things. Just building up self esteem for no particular reason does not lead to better performance. You need to get out there and get banged around and be stressed and have trauma. So you learn to be tougher. How has this affected your own parenting? A lot more awareness of screens, particularly of social media. And trying to put off smartphones for as long as we can.

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