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The Lost Skills

What Children Aren’t Learning in the Digital Age

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The Lost Skills

By: Robert Varton
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 In a world dominated by screens, devices, and digital conveniences, essential life skills are quietly fading away. The Lost Skills: What Children Aren’t Learning in the Digital Age by Robert Varton delves into the alarming gap between the digital proficiency that today’s children possess and the crucial life skills that are slowly being forgotten. From handwriting and face-to-face social interaction to problem-solving without Google and navigating without GPS, this book explores the everyday competencies that are slipping through the cracks in the era of technology.

Varton sheds light on how over-reliance on digital tools is impacting children's ability to retain information, think critically, and engage with the world in a tactile, hands-on way. More than just identifying the problem, The Lost Skills provides practical advice, exercises, and solutions to help parents, educators, and caregivers nurture these vanishing abilities and empower children to thrive in a balanced, technology-enhanced but skill-enriched environment.

If you are concerned about the developmental impacts of the digital age and want to help the next generation rediscover the foundational skills that foster independence, resilience, and creativity, The Lost Skills offers the roadmap you need. Let this book remind you—and the children in your life—that there’s more to growing up than swiping and tapping.

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Written by AI and read by AI.

Purely as a source of information, this works fine. It is structured, covers plenty of areas of child development that can be negatively affected by leaning too heavily on the convenient tools provided by modern phones, computers and the internet. If pure information is what you are after, like tips on what helps to counter the effects of technology on kids, this will do the job. Nothing in the "book", if you can call it that, jumps out as incorrect. That's why I begrudgingly rated it 2 stars overall.

But it's written in the driest academic essay style, devoid of any humanity and human experience. The wording is extremely stiff and repetitive. Makes you think you have accidentally restarted the chapter all the time. This is why AI-generated content will never provide a good reading or listening experience. This is also why I rated the story 1 star. And the hypocrisy of this AI-generated book to preach about how "overuse of digital tools can contribute to the lack of creativity and personal expression in writing" is incredible. Like, you don't say.

Written by AI, so don't spend money on this

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