Comparison:
Once you realize smartphones are like the cuckoo bird. So the Cuckoo bird lays her egg in other birds' nests; that egg hatches quickly and then the baby hatchling pushes out all the other eggs. A smart phone does that. When you give your kid a smart phone, it going to push out almost everything else.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has a way of explaining why you may want to keep smart phones out of young hands. Since they're (the phones) smart, they kind of want all other possible input and influences out of the way. A cuckoo way for a culture to proceed. On the other hand a nifty, feathered way of using a simile. Flap on!
Context:
Once you realize smartphones are like the cuckoo bird. So the Cuckoo bird lays her egg in other birds' nests; that egg hatches quickly and then the baby hatchling pushes out all the other eggs. A smart phone does that. When you give your kid a smart phone, it going to push out almost everything else. They're going to sit there their whole childhood on the phone. My basic argument in the anxious generation is that we have overprotected our kids in the real world where they desperately need a huge amount of experience. And we've underprotected them online, which is this insane adult space that is not made for children in which a lot of kids are getting torn up.
Citation:
Haidt, Jonathan. “Escaping the Matrix.”Interview by Shankar Vedantam on Hidden Brain. NPR. 11 March 2024. Web.
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