- Often people are worried about kids using too much social media or watching TV. But the cause for that might just be bored and nothing else really. It's important for children to have things to do. ---- "The next way to tackle it might be to think in terms of the reality that it’s good for kids to be busy—not too busy, but busy. So another question that I would ask is: What is she doing after school? Does she have an abundance of free time that couldn’t be better spent? Now, I think the part that is hard for parents is that a lot of us, myself included, watched ungodly amounts of television—" - [Link](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-parent-of-a-teen-ager-is-an-emotional-garbage-collector)