Walk into a wedding reception this year and you're as likely to find a basket of disposable cameras on the table as a photo booth. Ask a twenty-two-year-old about her new phone and she may proudly tell you it can only call and text. There is a word for what's happening here, and it isn't…
It sounds harmless enough to print on a mug. Be yourself. Follow your heart. You are perfect just the way you are. American parents have repeated some version of this phrase to their children for two generations now, and the research on what it actually produced is no longer ambiguous. It did not produce more…
A ten-year-old in 1979 could walk to the corner store, spend an afternoon in the woods with friends, and come home when the streetlights came on, all without a parent knowing exactly where he was for hours at a time. A ten-year-old today is more likely to have never walked to a nearby store alone…
