"The general attitude was, 'Well, what are you going to do? The technology is here to stay. This is the way the kids connect. You can't fight the future,' Haidt tells TODAY.com after his broadcast appearance on Sept. 11. He has been advocating for a play-based childhood rather than a phone-based one."
""There was a sense of inevitability, the sense that it's just too late, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube," he continues. "But if your kid's life depends on it, you put the toothpaste back in the tube, you find a way.""
""Parents, and especially mothers, rose up," he says. "Red states did it. Blue states did it, and so this has been an amazing demonstration of what we can do when we work together.""
Calls to reduce children's smartphone use emphasize restoring play-based childhoods instead of phone-based ones. Many parents are scaling back technology, reintroducing landlines and joining the Wait Until 8th campaign to delay smartphones until the end of eighth grade. Parents mobilized across political lines, with mothers playing a prominent role. Schools changed phone rules: 31 states and the District of Columbia require districts to restrict student cellphone use. Some parents oppose bans because they want immediate contact for scheduling or safety concerns. The debate balances child well-being and developmental needs against parental communication and emergency access.
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