"Let’s be open to letting go of cultural myths. We know that the benefits of teenage smartphones do not outweigh the risks and harms. There are thousands of reasons for buying a phone for your child, but there is only one reason to skip it: your child’s health and well-being. And that reason matters more than all the others."

"They are really fighting shadows—things they have already lived through but are still trying to avoid or control in their current world. Their anxiety is a repetition, a representation of that old wound—now placed onto a new topic or person."

Rather than attempting to directly change the FTL behavior through threats or lecturing, parents focused on modifying their own behavior by gradually decreasing the accommodations and trusting in their child’s capacity to grow.

In 2016, CBT-I became the first psychological treatment to be given the thumbs up as the preferred treatment by a medical organization, at least in the United States.