On Cell-Phones: A Resolution for the Coming New Year

One of my growing pet peeves is when older folks complain about how "kids these days" are always fiddling on their smartphones, becoming anti-social and cutting themselves off from all the beauty of the world around them and etc. 

Look, here's the God's-honest-truth--it's not that kids are always on their phones, it's that they are always on their phones around you.  

Suddenly that re-frames the problem, doesn't it.

In my experience as both a teacher and a student, when kids are...