Children losing the ability to hold a conversation because of technology, Wimpy Kid author says
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He described children's relationships with technology as the "great experiment of our times".
"I don't know if anybody really has the right answer but what's undeniable is the way that kids communicate with each other has changed fundamentally and probably permanently," he told the Press Association.
"What we really want for our kids is to be fully socialised and to hold a conversation with one another and I think that's what's being lost.
"If I get in the car with my kids now everybody's on their phone ... and it feels weird to drive around with everybody on their phone.
"I think it is being lost, not just slightly, and I think that we're all complicit as parents as well. It's on my mind all the time."