If you want to keep cooking, the phone cannot be the main character. Facts.

From the angle of shielding one’s kids from it, you’re right. This definitely doesn’t replace Chinuch and teaching them the values where they themselves will know how to approach technology properly. It IS still valuable though to avoid exposing them to it early on, at home, putting it in their hands, and leaving them to fend for themselves. That’s literally a stumbling block.

The article is more of a reflection for each one of us. It’s not that I can’t get ahold of a device like that. I can. The question is whether or not I want to introduce it into my home and decide that that is where I want my struggle with having a healthy balance with technology to be. Most people struggle with the distractions of technology. I can choose though to move the battleground away from my home.

The point is that we need to put away our own phones for our own good. If you want to beat the system, you always can.

A pnimi is someone who does something whole heartedly, completely invested in each activity.
Really hard to do with constant phone availabity.

Another point to consider: Rabbi Shmuel Wudowsky AH taught that before choosing a siddur to daven from, there are those who would choose the most worn out- because of all the tefillos davened from it. It’s a dimension to davening that just can’t happen when davening with a phone.