Turning the heat up

Harry Potter star Emma Watson lamented recently that childhood is getting shorter.

Turning the heat up

She blames social media and the constant uploading of photos to sites like Facebook for making young girls self-conscious about their bodies.

Social media isn’t the only force eroding childhood. Many children of primary school age and even younger have diaries as full as their parents’ — a hyper-scheduling of their lives that may well be making them self-conscious about their aptitudes and abilities.

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