When Tech Is a Problem Child
By Bruce Feiler
How parents fight back against their kids' obsession with smartphones and social media.
In the Broadway classic "The Music Man," set in 1912, the con artist Harold Hill shows up in River City, Iowa, and attempts to persuade the otherwise contented townspeople that their youth are slipping into degradation. He singles out a billiard parlor, "the devil's playground," as the root.
"You got trouble," he sings. "With a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'P' and that stands for pool!"
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