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It’s more a matter of how the child develops. We developed by playing ball or climbing trees or building blocks, etc. Our brains developed without being in crisis mode all the time. It was a slower, more patient development. We had to learn patience. We had to learn social skills. Technology can displace that in a negative way.

That's true. Most kids in my schools growing up did not have things like ADD ADHD. Each elementary school of say about 800 kids maybe one or two kids per grade had it. Of those 50% actually may have been something else like I was. What kids watch and what they listen to can trigger the fight/flight portion of the brain. That is where the strongest impulses can come from and that portion demands an appropriate response to data it receives. If not then the behavioral side kicks in. Fear of heights for example in most cases is not an actual phobia. Your brain running it's on checks and balances realizes a balance issue. It may detect issues you are not aware of in balance etc. Cross over what the brain see's as safe and the brain demands response.

My 7th and 8th grade year was in a Special Education/Rehabilitation Center. The Rehabilitation being focused on kids with learning and physical issues. I saw kids with everything a kid can have. It was actually a regional {about six county} school with about 500 students that served the Knoxville, TN area. Only a few were ADD ADHD. Polio, MD, CP, Autism, Dyslexia, Open Spine, hearing impairment and visual impairments were the main issues. It got closed down later on I think in the late 1980's due to mainstreaming. Who benefited? The schools they went to got extra funds for doing nothing for the kids. Who suffered? The kids. They lost the help they were getting. Special Education Teachers have a special ability to teach kids with problems most other teachers do not have or do not have time for.

I made it through high school and completed two post high school Voc/Tech courses in different fields. In today's schools I would not have stood a chance.