Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.

Since we've been standardizing and measuring cognitive development since the late 1800s,

every generation has outperformed their parents. And that's exactly what we want. We want sharper kids.

And the reason for this largely has been school. Each generation spends more time in school.

We use school to develop our cognition.

Congratulations. You see your correlation. Until Gen Z, Gen Z is the first generation of modern

history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention

to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to even general IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.

I am so damn tired of being lied to.

I don't think I can't deny it anymore.

You can't stick to your story if you think it flies, but I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 339th episode of Congressional Dish.

I am your host, Jennifer Briney.

And parents, this is an episode for you.

Although, if you don't have kids, that's fine.

This episode is for you too.

But mainly for parents, I think this is one that you

especially need to hear because we are about to go into a long hot summer. And while I don't have

kids, my husband and I decided not to have them on purpose because living a digital nomad life

without a permanent home doesn't sound like a stable environment for a child. So even though I

don't have kids, I love kids and I have more experience with kids than a lot of people would think

that I do. Because my job in high school, I was a coach for kids in all kinds of sports. I did

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