Devorah Heitner
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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And seeing that discrepancy at the same time that I became a parent myself, my son was born in two thousand and nine.
Really opened my eyes to a gaping hole that parents and everyone else was very confused about what this would all mean for young people and especially.
the proliferation of things like smartphones.
What does that actually mean for kids?
So
I started to r research and speak on that topic and I ended up leaving my university job to just do this full time.
Thank you.
That was about three or four years ago.
It was before the book, definitely.
I think it was twenty fifteen.
Okay.
Absolutely.
I think the core message of that talk, which is empathy, is the app and the focus on both how we as parents need to cultivate empathy for our kids' experience of growing up more connected and more public and how we in turn want to cultivate and support their empathy for their peers and for others in their digital interactions.
I think that message is still very current, but yeah, even
I'm sure some of the examples I would use now would be a little bit different.
And that's always true.
I mean, I I speak every day on this topic practically and it's it's always it's always a moving target.
And that's why I think we we we should focus more on the core experiences our kids have and the skills that they need to be successful rather than specific applications.
Yeah, and especially as parents of kids who are quirky or n neurodiverse, we're already thinking about self regulation.
And I think this is an area where in some ways we have a lot in common with parents of neurotypical kids where
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