Connecting this with the above paragraph, go to any school play nowadays and none of the parents are watching. They are all live streaming it on Fakebook. Then they complain that kids are too taken up with their phones.

Nobody wants to watch a third-grader in a school play other than that third grader's parents. The parents know it's terrible but there is, or that is there was, a kind of sacred trust going on, a rite of passage for parents and children.

But now there is not a significant moment at any time in any child's life that does not feature a screen thrust between them and their parents.