"Attention isn’t a single faculty that switches on when we ask it to. It’s a set of layered systems that mature on different timelines. The voluntary, top-down layer — the one that allows an adult to peel himself away from the television to write an essay about attention itself, as I’m doing now — is the one that develops last. That’s why ten-year-olds like Oliver aren’t ready for the barrage of stimuli a smartphone puts in front of them..." https://walledgardenedu.substack.com/p/too-much-too-soon?r=ryjpk&utm_medium=ios