— so what we can do to nurture both? Answer: “Pay attention to what we are paying attention to.”

Awareness is all. Too much stimulation equals toxic stress; too little, boredom. The amount of stimulation for both the child, and we who are firing synapses in the brain of the evolving internet, needs to to be “just right” — and for both, “just right” changes with age and maturity.

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