>Although today my wife said she might want to get him a smart watch which I was NOT happy about for many reasons.

Smallsteps has a watch for school hours - though it is on school mode during those hours, and she can only call us in "an emergency". There are no games on it, no fun - but she does use it to send and receive some messages from family (people have to be approved and are controlled). Since she is walking to and from school alone now, she normally calls one of us to talk along the way. Not sure about the radiation stuff though. 

>The thing with technology is the kids are unbelievably smart and capable - so they will adopt and adapt to it as quickly as they need it to be 

People forget that we were children who didn't grow up with tech like this, but are still here, understanding things that most of Gen-Z still do not ;)

> so that they can develop “normally” is how I’m going to term it.

Precisely. I don't see the kids on screens having superhuman abilities, but more have *subhuman* behaviors.