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So a lot of parents are taking away their kids laptops and making

them work on pen and paper for a couple of reasons you're a parent with kids that have laptops

what do you think the reasons are they're taking them away uh well they don't know how to write

that's one of them i think that's number two because you're right. Kids don't know how to write.

Their penmanship is pretty terrible. I can only speak for my kids. To be fair, though, what if someone said to us when we were in school and it's been a while, you don't know how to churn butter anymore? Like we always used to churn butter. There's no need for us to churn butter when we were kids. there's almost no need for kids to write anymore.

Like where do you really write with pen and paper?

Correspondence is feeling like a lost start. I think we need to keep it around. So is churning butter. I don't know so much about that part, but I think writing needs to happen. I should take that back to Claire from from my kids because my daughter will be like, are you kidding, mama? I have a really good handwriting, which she does. I guess it's my son that we're struggling with. But I think that that's one of the big things. And then also just more screens all the time. Like screens, TVs, screens, iPads, video games, phones, computers. NBC News had the story. Parents across the country are pushing back against school

issued Chromebooks and iPads arguing the devices create more distraction than they do benefit.

And they go through the list. They expose children to inappropriate content. And they undermine learning as if

you're distracted, but also you're not doing the things like writing. I'm not a big, we need to learn how to

write guy. I can tell. Because we don't use it that often. I rarely write on anything. So why take and dedicate? I agree with the screens, everything you said, but I'm just talking writing. Why take and dedicate a whole bunch of time to something that kids don't use?

Because you think they need it.

I do think they need it. I think that the pen to paper, there is something cognitively that is healthy about that. I agree with that. And trust me, they're also not typing right either.

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