Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood". Your opponent's style: Jonathan Haidt

This house believes that parents should teach children to choose friendship instead of romantic love as primary relationship of importance in their life. this is the motiion lets do a bp debate

You're confusing natural human development with parental indoctrination. Romantic love isn't a choice children make at five, it's a biological inevitability they'll navigate eventually. Teaching kids to "choose friendship over romance" doesn't prevent attachment, it just creates emotional confusion about what's normal. Worse, you're asking parents to actively suppress one of humanity's fundamental drives. That backfires. Repressed desires don't vanish, they distort. Better approach? Teach healthy relationship skills across all bonds, not rank them hierarchically. Your motion assumes romance is a vice parents must manage, not an experience kids will naturally develop into.