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Parenting

Parenting

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Parenting

- One of the most, well first of all I'm going to say something about my daughter, my daughter Becka, who is the most patient woman on the planet because, ever since she was a baby, she has allowed me to talk to her about my research. She played with Tamagotchis, and she let me ask her if she thought they were alive. She played with Furbys, she played with (chuckles) all kinds of robot dolls, and watching her grow up with this technology has been humbling because it's so clear that it's complicated. Because there is no simple story of this technology drowning empathy, of this technology creating a generation with no empathy, that cannot make eye contact, that cannot relate humanly to others. And I think I resent simple stories and simple negative pronouncements or efforts to make me sound as though I'm saying that because, if you raise a child, and if you see other parents raising children with technology since she's always had a lot of technology around her, but where there's also a…

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