Educators Derek Muharem and Karen Aliciene discuss the challenges of raising children in a digital world, contrasting modern phone-based childhoods with traditional play-based upbringings. They explain that smartphones and social media fragment attention, hinder deep friendships, and trigger compulsive dopamine responses through infinite scrolling. To combat these issues, they advise parents to delay smartphone ownership, establish family technology agreements, and keep devices out of bedrooms overnight to protect essential sleep. Ultimately, they emphasize that building resilience, independence, and strong offline connections matters far more than controlling screen time.