ABSTRACT
This chapter shifts the lens outward to consider how relationships with and responsibility for others impact children's grit, resilience, and motivation. The word trauma is currently used quite often in educational parlance, as teachers have begun to recognize patterns in children's behavior that stand out from "typical" child development. Tolerable stress includes experiences that are more intense than those associated with positive stress and that can be detrimental to children's cognitive and social-emotional development. Many teachers of young children are faced with the challenge of explaining the use of technology in early childhood classrooms, in part because parents and others assume that the use of digital tools will make children—to be blunt—lazy, fat, and antisocial. One of the most prominent researchers in the field of technology and human interaction is Sherry Turkle, a professor and the founder and director of the Initiative on Technology and Self at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
