Cameron Smith: Maine shooter Robert Card is dead, but real mental health policies shouldn’t be

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We’re teaching our children to read, but we’re not teaching them to self-regulate. Students practice to become better athletes, but we’re not practicing building healthy relationships. We’re learning about our history as states and a nation, but we struggle to help each other connect past trauma to their current behavior.

We must equip the next generation with the tools they need to navigate society without resorting to violence or self-harm.

While we’re at it, we should take the link between screen time and mental health a little more seriously. The Yale Department of Psychiatry and Columbia School of Nursing completed theearlier this year which analyzed screen media activity in over 5,100 9- and 10-year-olds. The ABCD study found “youth who spent the most time on their digital technology were statistically more likely to exhibit higher levels of internalizing problems two years later.

 

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