We grew up before screens took over. Our kids deserve that chance too

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. CUNY professor of law Jeffrey Lax argues that teaching basic economics in high schools would help students understand the differences between free markets and socialism on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’ As I scroll through Instagram Reels romanticizing life in the late 1990s and early 2000s — girls gathered around a boombox at a sleepover, kids riding bikes until the streetlights came on and teenagers hanging out at the mall instead of staring at their phones — I'm struck by the irony: I have to browse social media to recall what life felt like before it took over. Millennials may have been the last generation to grow up with technology instead of growing up inside it. We had family computers, Nintendo 64, DVDs, flip phones and, eventually, iPods, but those tools occupied a place in our lives rather than becoming the center of them. Technology made our lives