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COMMENTARY: Parents looking to protect their girls from the mental health contagion must first push back against victimhood narratives.
“A tale of two girlhoods.”
That’s the caption I gave two photos I sent side by side to friends in a recent chat discussion about tweens and phones.
Taken surreptitiously from the carpool line, the first photo shows a gaggle of 11- and 12-year-old girls squished together and laughing on a bench swing waiting for their rides outside of my daughter’s school. Every single one of them is smiling. Every single one is making eye contact with another. Every single one of them has their hair halfway above their heads and their legs floating unevenly in the air. It is a snapshot of innocence in its twilight.
Despite being squarely within the average age range for receiving their first smartphones, there is nary an iPhone to be seen.
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“A tale of two girlhoods.”
That’s the caption I gave two photos I sent side by side to friends in a recent chat discussion about tweens and phones.
Taken surreptitiously from the carpool line, the first photo shows a gaggle of 11- and 12-year-old girls squished together and laughing on a bench swing waiting for their rides outside of my daughter’s school. Every single one of them is smiling. Every single one is making eye contact with another. Every single one of them has their hair halfway above their heads and their legs floating unevenly in the air. It is a snapshot of innocence in its twilight.
Despite being squarely within the average age range for receiving their first smartphones, there is nary an iPhone to be seen.
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Saving Our Girls from Social Media
COMMENTARY: Parents looking to protect their girls from the mental health contagion must first push back against victimhood narratives.