A new approach to deal with puberty anxiety is similar to taking vodka shots to deal with alcoholism. TROODI, a “AI -driven health coach”, claims to support children's emotional and physical happiness. This app is distributed through TROOMI, a specially designed smartphone designed for children, and works as a tool like Siri for mental health. Children use this app to discuss daily stress, and according to the website, “TROODI is listening and providing useful advice.”
Despite the wide range of data that emphasizes the adverse effects of smartphones, the TROOMI approach is worth noting to the conventional wisdom. Global Mind Project's research said, “The relationship between the 18-24 -year -old mental happiness and the age of the acquisition of the first smartphone remained important, even those who have no trauma or disadvantageous childhood experience. “
With AI, parents are happy to abandon authority and outsourcare the most important roles.
It's troublesome, but the message may be worse than the medium. Information can be commoded, but it requires a decision to apply it. This is the essential human quality that cannot be outsourced. Bots may verify someone's emotions, but unlike therapists, or what we say, manage and apply them, and the complexity of life in the world of society. I can't understand. This kind of understanding is only available through living experience.
Famous psychologists, authors, and major critics of smartphone culture Jonathan Hight, “Anxiety generation: a method in which a great reduction in childhood causes a trend of mental illness.” I am emphasizing. He argues that “experience is an emotional development, not information.” HAIDT explains as follows: “This new telephone -based childhood, free play, attunement, and local models for social learning are replaced by the influencer selected by screen time, asynchronous interaction, and algorithm. In the sense, I have been deprived of my childhood.
What kind of experience does HAIDT mean? Little League games, summer work, community services, etc. A kind to build children's characters. These activities require active participation and production, not passive consumption. Again, it's not about having information, but how to use it.
Bots like Trudi cannot reproduce the sense of accomplishment from overcoming failures. The app cannot be critically considered in a compromise. Technology cannot put his arms around a teenage bass boy, see him, or “do well.” Human interaction cannot be replaced. There is no algorithm for sympathy.
One solution remains much better than a smartphone that supports children to grow into prosperous adults. As Meg Meeker is writing In the lesson saying, “Deveraged mother, strong son: Mother needs to raise extraordinary men,” he said, “When the boy has a safe attachment to his mother, he is psychologically healthy, stronger, and even brave. He has a higher self -esteem and has a lower percentage of mental disorders.
This principle spreads beyond the bond of Mother Son. in Her book “Strong father, strong daughter: 10 secrets, all the secrets should know,” he emphasizes. Others. With AI, parents are happy to abandon authority and outsourcare the most important roles. The fact that a company suggests that a bot can be a substitute is as humiliated by parents and mental health experts.
Parenting is definitely challenging. American modern schedule and cultural norms only have increased these difficulties. Being a working parent is a praise and can show a valuable example for your child. In fact, working parents face daily time and energy restrictions. Is society too focused on your profession at the expense of the most important calls? Bots can manage the calendar, but cannot be pushed at night.
Troodi should be useful as a morning call that something deeper is wrong. It indicates a social failure when companies can benefit from the idea that artificial intelligence is an appropriate solution to deal with the mental health crisis of young people. Human tasks require human connection. You have to intervene to handle what humans can do only.
