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Some really excellent thoughts in this thread. Part of it depends on the kid. And I think some kids need a shove to get out and do stuff, while others just do it naturally on their own. I definitely think the internet has isolated a lot of kids, because social media to a great extent reflects idealized lives that nobody leads. They end up thinking everyone else has it better than they do.
Toss in the opioid epidemic, which is killing people of all ages, but includes a lot of kids, and you have some screwed up messes out there.
But I have hope. When I was young, people predicted television would screw us all up, and look how great we all turned out!
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