(The Atlantic) – Phones and screens play an important role in the show. At home, Jaime, the 13-year-old accused killer, has a computer in his room, which his middle-class father was proud to be able to give him. At school, teachers entreat students to put their phones away, mostly unsuccessfully. The teens bully one another online through emoji-dotted Instagram comments—a code that the adults in their lives struggle to crack.

The show raises questions for parents about how to monitor, or restrict, their kids’ use of devices and social media. (The first and fourth episodes, in which Jamie’s father weeps over his own failures, made me want to phone-proof my kid until college.) For answers, I reached out to Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at NYU and the author of The Anxious Generation. For years, Haidt has been begging parents and schools to prohibit smartphones until high school and to keep kids off social media until the age of 16. An edited transcript of our conversation follows. (Read More)