[chandmk]

When I was kid, I remember my parents yelling at me playing 'useless' games at the end of the street with my 'good for nothing' friends.

When I was a teen, I remember them not liking me watching "too much" of TV and grumbling about reading 'no good' fiction magazines.

Now this.. "get off the phone" advice.

The key is, the choice must come from with-in, like Diogenes of Snopes[1] tells Alexader the great to stand out of his sun.

Until the kids are capable of making the choice or until the kids turn into adults, parents and schools must create an environment that shows descent maker's alternative to phones. This needs lot of work on behaf of schools and sacrifices on behalf of parents.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander