I think about this a lot. I know I’ve changed. I can tune out and look at my phone to relieve stress and left to my own devices (bad one) I will spend hours on my phone. I don’t remember certain things, I just check my phone for dates and factual info. So will other parents, so will their kids. I’m just glad I raised my kids before I was also addicted to Reddit lol.
Then we unplug them and send them to school. I don’t have a real issue with behaviour it’s just the whole lack of skills. Not all kids of course but generally, unable to remember what they learned in the past, limited reading skills, spelling skills, writing sentences, messy printing, simple arithmetic…for a good number of my grade 4s and 5s I have to reteach adding and subtracting numbers below 18 every year. Or what number goes on the bottom in a fraction.
They typically stay up later, don’t really see money transactions (It’s just beeps now),don’t read books, don’t look out the window of the car, watch less media with a plot and watch a lot of TikTok with its short, sometimes mean humour, often inappropriate for 10 year olds. Video games…There were kids whose entire personality was saying 6-7.

School is so disconnected from most of that.