Got my kids back for the summer, first time since they got phones (9 and 11-yo). They're hooked through the fucking bag. And that's with their mom having severely limiting their screen time.

If I so much as threaten to take their phones, they act exactly like an addict having their stash stolen. If a literal demon jumped out the phone, grabbed them by the neck and punched them in face, they'd go right back on the screen.

I listen in, and it's all high-pitched chatter at 100mph, randomly switching topics and formats. If the internet has fried my brain at 53, god knows what it's doing to them.