2024-10-10
9 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
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My name is Marae Silkoff.
I'm a journalist, a cultural critic and an author and I live in Montreal, Canada.
I recently wrote an article about paying my daughter $100 to read a single book.
My 12 year old is a very gregarious girl, or traditionally has been the type of kid who would get excited at a new dessert cooling in the fridge, jump up and down on any given occasion with excitement and glee.
And then she got a smartphone and turned into, as I write in the article, something of a monosyllabic blanket slug.
We entered what I call the duvet cave era, which was suddenly my 12 year old would disappear into her room and I'd find her with the door closed, the blinds down, the lights off under her duvet, just on her phone.
I'm 51.
I'm Gen X.
I don't know any parent of kids my age who aren't in a huge daily tussle about technology and how to manage it.
And I feel like no how many parental controls, no matter how many blackout periods you put in, it can feel like a bit of an unwinnable battle for parents because it's you against TikTok and Snapchat and Apple and Amazon and you know, this entire giant billion and billion dollar thing that's just taken over the entire culture.
You know, I'm a single mom.
I'm at home alone with these two girls.