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 And media often promotes these bad behaviors because it’s profitable. Yank the smart phones from your kids below 18, give them a dumb phone with gps (not kaios based) so you can delete WhatsApp, google browser, YouTube. Give them a locked down laptop with tools for building, learning or designing stuff. Curiousity Stream (in kid mode) and Angels studios come to mind, search about the ideologies behind the books they are reading before you ok them, let them know there are 195 countries in the world and the USA is only one of them, reward character building over academic achievements and warn them about the dangers of a single story, to think for themselves and for the why behind everything. Yes, being a kid or parent has become more complicated.