Catherine O'Mahony: 'We fret about our kids being smartphone addicts, but we're all hooked on online gossip.'
It's been another week to fret about how much time children are spending online. Photo: Andrey Popov
It's been another week to fret about how much time children are spending online. This is fast becoming one of the pet peeves of modern life. It's easier, I guess, to focus on the speck in our kids' eyes than the beam in our own - but more of that later.
In any case, you can hardly blame anyone who is worrying about kids. The provocation is huge. We are reminded of the dangers every time there's a near miss with an attempted internet grooming or some new statistics that show us the scale of juvenile addiction to gadgets.
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