{"id":11345,"date":"2018-08-08T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/screentimelabs.com\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2022-03-18T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:18:10","slug":"is-the-mobile-mindset-making-your-teen-self-centered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screentimelabs.com\/blog\/is-the-mobile-mindset-making-your-teen-self-centered-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the 'Mobile Mindset' Making Your Teen Self-Centered?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Teenager

Phones constantly demand our attention, no matter where we are.<\/p><\/div>
\nMe First, Me Last, Me Always<\/strong>
\nPart of the problem is teens and kids are just naturally more prone to smartphone addiction. At their worst, smartphones are designed to relentlessly demand our attention with alerts, texts, calls, notifications and hosts of other ways to pull you away from whatever you’re doing in the real world<\/a> and go back to the phone. Device use is particularly tempting in awkward social situations, and we can all agree that being a teen means encountering plenty of those.
\nThe problem, of course, is over time, humans may become less interesting to kids than the various pings and dings a smartphone offers up. It’s a question of punching through the world that smartphones present, and getting your teens to consider their actions in a broader context. Or, of course, keep device dependency from happening in the first place.
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\"Teenagers