I’m a mother watching my kids grow up attached to screens. Will they ever experience the kind of deep, imaginative childhood we had?

You look at your kids on the couch. Silent. Absorbed in a glowing screen. And you remember your own childhood: Building forts, getting lost in books, staring at the ceiling when you were bored. You wonder if something precious is being stolen. That worry comes from a place of deep love. But imagination didn't disappear when screens arrived. Technology changes the playground, not the human mind. Boredom used to force us to invent worlds. Today, media gives them worlds—and challenges them to build inside them. The goal isn't to shield them from the modern world. It's to make sure they know how to step away from it. Technology gives them tools to consume. Your love teaches them how to create.