A Child Making Friends with Chatbots: What’s the Problem with That?
The smartphone phenomenon has been impacting the milieu in the United States for well over 15 years. Some of us can remember what life was like before smartphones were put into the hands of Americans. Many of us were in college or had just graduated from high school....
Grooming Under the Guise of “Sport Development”
Many more children get “lost in the machine. Identifying children early who may show potential to become elite athletes one day is a growing social phenomenon. This growing psychology and sociological movement of “talent identification” is not only influential in the...
Feelings are Real…Right?
I grew up like many of us believing that emotions are not essential to human functioning. My understanding as a young man was that emotions only would make me “weak” if I associated myself with them. Although not one person directly informed of my view of emotions,...