Kansas kids are ‘sliding into silence.’ Let’s talk about why they are chatting less.

Kansas kids are ‘sliding into silence.’ Let’s talk about why they are chatting less.

Our columnist asks you to "consider it a cultural public service that you are listening to me and my nonsense" when he tries to talk to you (Illustration by Eric Thomas for Kansas Reflector)In the flotsam of things I read each week — academic research, online news, sports stories and fiction — one tidbit can get naggily lodged in my thoughts. This week, the splinter in my mind is titled “Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewe…