One of the greatest challenges coming our way because of the immersive nature of technology will be for us to collectively redefine what it means to “be” somewhere.

Trying to surveil your kid is a fool’s errand: in the same way you were able to fly under the radar of your parents’ watchful eye, your kids can do the same with you. It’s what being a kid is all about.

Raising children today is as hard as it’s ever been. Here are 8 parenting tips guaranteed to make your efforts easier (or at least give you some things to consider as you try to make your peace with cellphones and gaming consoles). 

Today’s parents are working out challenges as pioneers in a new digital frontier without guides or mentors and with a limited sense of the topography. To guide a child’s development today, parents need to engage with their children’s digital realities and teach them concepts there just like they would the physical world. 

Phones (all tech, really) need to sleep in a room separate from its users, just like cars do. It makes for the best kind of sleep for humans. And phones.

It’s 2017, of course you are. We are all TechnoHumans.

I often ask people to consider the Selves they have that live outside their bodies.