About a year ago, I was invited to speak to a group of middle school students in a Catholic school in Florida. The principal wanted me to talk with the students about what life had been like for them during the pandemic. She was aware that the children had been suffering tremendously from a lack of peer support and basic human contact during this time. Additionally, studies were beginning to suggest that the influence of social media was having seriously negative effects on young people post-COVID. So I was eager to see how these students were doing.