Digital for Good

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Balanced

Using Technology on Our Terms

An important rite of passage for parents and children alike is learning (and teaching) how to ride a bike. For generations, we all used essentially the same approach: training wheels. Those rickety little wheels provided a safe way for kids to get used to riding the bike before having to do it on their own. The problem is that those well-intentioned training wheels actually taught the wrong skills. Driving and steering aren’t nearly as important as learning to balance. So inevitably there came that heart-stopping moment of taking the wheels off and running behind your totally out-of-control kid, hoping nobody ended up in the hospital. Even if it didn’t result in any broken bones, the process took longer ...