Life as a teen without social media isn’t easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline
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Kate Bulkeley uses her phone to print textbook pages while Sutton packs art materials ahead of a ski vacation, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Kate Bulkeley shows her sister, Sutton, a mask she made in school, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Kate and Sutton Bulkeley pack art materials ahead of a ski vacation, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Kate and Sutton Bulkeley talk in the living room, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Gabriela Durham, 17, arranges items on her dresser inside her room on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Sutton Bulkeley stretches in the living room, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Sutton Bulkeley packs art materials ahead of a ski vacation, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Sutton Bulkeley reads the novel ‘Mockingjay’ by Suzanne Collins in the living room, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn.
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Gionna Durham, 13, reads a book on the sofa on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Gionna Durham, 13, left, spends time in the kitchen as her sister Grace Durham, 11, right, draws on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Seventeen-year-old Gabriela Durham, studies inside her room on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Gabriela Durham, 17, right, plays a game with her sister Gionna Durham, 13, left, partly seen, at their apartment, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Grace Durham, 11, checks her wardrobe inside her room on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Kate Bulkeley, second from right, eats dinner with her family, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Westport, Conn. With the damaging consequences of social media increasingly well documented, many parents are trying to raise their children with restrictions or blanket bans.
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Gabriela Durham, 17, uses her phone to listen to music inside her room on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York. Concerns about children and phone use are not new.
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Elena Romero, second from left, and her daughters Gabriela Durham, 17, left, Gionna Durham, 13 second from right, and Grace Durham, 11, have dinner together on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Gionna Durham, 13 , left, holds her phone as she has dinner with her sister Gabriela Durham, 17 years old, unseen, on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
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Grace Durham, 11, right, talks with her 17-year-old sister Gabriela, in a hallway of their apartment, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in New York.
