PJ Vogt

She can't find an outfit.

Even I, a person who often misses subtext, can pretty much tell what's going on here. This is not about choosing the correct fabric. Sydney, who is pretty, is not feeling pretty. Her mom is trying to help her feel pretty, help her find the right outfit, the magical combination of clothes that might allow her to leave the house.

Even I, a person who often misses subtext, can pretty much tell what's going on here. This is not about choosing the correct fabric. Sydney, who is pretty, is not feeling pretty. Her mom is trying to help her feel pretty, help her find the right outfit, the magical combination of clothes that might allow her to leave the house.

Even I, a person who often misses subtext, can pretty much tell what's going on here. This is not about choosing the correct fabric. Sydney, who is pretty, is not feeling pretty. Her mom is trying to help her feel pretty, help her find the right outfit, the magical combination of clothes that might allow her to leave the house.

I grew up in a house with three sisters. This moody tug of war, does this look good? No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. Conservatively, I watched it happen probably 15,000 times. But here's what's different.

I grew up in a house with three sisters. This moody tug of war, does this look good? No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. Conservatively, I watched it happen probably 15,000 times. But here's what's different.

I grew up in a house with three sisters. This moody tug of war, does this look good? No, it doesn't. Yes, it does. Conservatively, I watched it happen probably 15,000 times. But here's what's different.

In this documentary series, which is called Social Studies, the director, Lauren Greenfield, has somehow persuaded a bunch of teenagers to record the contents of their phones for a year and share those contents with her. And so while this conversation's going on, you actually know for once what Sydney, the teenager, is really seeing.

In this documentary series, which is called Social Studies, the director, Lauren Greenfield, has somehow persuaded a bunch of teenagers to record the contents of their phones for a year and share those contents with her. And so while this conversation's going on, you actually know for once what Sydney, the teenager, is really seeing.

In this documentary series, which is called Social Studies, the director, Lauren Greenfield, has somehow persuaded a bunch of teenagers to record the contents of their phones for a year and share those contents with her. And so while this conversation's going on, you actually know for once what Sydney, the teenager, is really seeing.

As her mom holds up different, to me, indistinguishable pieces of fabric, We know, from the view we've just had into the phone, what's on Sydney's mind. An infinite scroll of these impossibly fit women wearing architectural outfits that flatter them perfectly. Sydney's mom does not know entirely what she's up against here. She, unlike us, cannot see into her daughter's phone.

As her mom holds up different, to me, indistinguishable pieces of fabric, We know, from the view we've just had into the phone, what's on Sydney's mind. An infinite scroll of these impossibly fit women wearing architectural outfits that flatter them perfectly. Sydney's mom does not know entirely what she's up against here. She, unlike us, cannot see into her daughter's phone.

As her mom holds up different, to me, indistinguishable pieces of fabric, We know, from the view we've just had into the phone, what's on Sydney's mind. An infinite scroll of these impossibly fit women wearing architectural outfits that flatter them perfectly. Sydney's mom does not know entirely what she's up against here. She, unlike us, cannot see into her daughter's phone.

So she isn't imagining, like we are, these women from the internet invisibly filling up the room. She tries her best.

So she isn't imagining, like we are, these women from the internet invisibly filling up the room. She tries her best.

So she isn't imagining, like we are, these women from the internet invisibly filling up the room. She tries her best.

On this show, sometimes we chase down usually little questions, questions that can be answered with a phone call or five, maybe some research. But the real questions that haunt me, actual me, in my own life, don't tend to be resolvable. They're not quests you get to go on. They're places you just have to live for a while. I grew up on the internet. I grew up on my phone.

On this show, sometimes we chase down usually little questions, questions that can be answered with a phone call or five, maybe some research. But the real questions that haunt me, actual me, in my own life, don't tend to be resolvable. They're not quests you get to go on. They're places you just have to live for a while. I grew up on the internet. I grew up on my phone.

On this show, sometimes we chase down usually little questions, questions that can be answered with a phone call or five, maybe some research. But the real questions that haunt me, actual me, in my own life, don't tend to be resolvable. They're not quests you get to go on. They're places you just have to live for a while. I grew up on the internet. I grew up on my phone.

I've had all sorts of thoughts and feelings about what I got from that and what I lost. But now I'm helping to raise kids, and I'm seeing them on their phones, on their internet, and I'm not sure what to make of it. There's been a big roiling debate nationally about this. One of the biggest best-selling books for the past year has been The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.