"It's a waste of time," she said, "because most of the time they're talking about nothing."

Don't knock nothing. Seinfeld was a show about nothing. Nothing can be quite something.

The young have become adept at managing multiple sources of information at once, but the ability to multitask has curbed their "ability to focus on a single thing, the ability to be silent and still inside, basically the ability to be unplugged and content."

"What we're losing is the contemplative dimension of life."

Parents Fret That Dialing Up Interferes With Growing Up