Then as a parent, I needed them again, as a refuge for my own child who lost himself in the world of books. It's not easy to parent w/o libraries. Phones are not babysitters and that message can't be driven home enough.

@annaleen.bsky.social In every part of your article, I wanted to raise the issues of paid media, stunting individualism, and incomplete information gathering, but you got it all. The question now is, how can parents fail their kids this way? As kids we needed the library desperately (no phones).