Back when I was a kid, kids didn’t have smartphones. Actually, nobody had smartphones. Because it was 1990 and my parents made me entertain myself with things like typewriters and baseballs. Just kidding, we totally had cutting-edge Game Boys back then…but I digress. These days, it seems like everywhere I look there’s a toddler playing with his mom’s or dad’s smartphone—dropping it, drooling on it, putting it in their mouth And the parents’ reasoning seems to be something like, “Well, that’s one way to shut them up.” But I’m here to tell you (and I shouldn’t have to): Giving your child your smartphone is a terrible, terrible idea…..