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The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental healthand a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the play-based childhood began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the phone-based childhood in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this great rewiring of childhood has interfered with childrens social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the collective action problems that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapescommunities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our childrenand ourselvesfrom the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
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mcctrish
mcctrish
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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None of this is rocket science to anyone born before smart phones, had kids before the phone based childhood ( my kids born 99/02 are on the edge) and/or work in education. Girls and boyse are hit differently ( I only have boys) and at different ages. We need to return to a play based childhood at home and at school. Phones have no place at school and using them to entertain your child while you shop, drive, eat is a disaster

ChaoticMissAdventures I get torn about phones in schools being in the US. We have so many school shootings here. I want my nieces to be able to call or text us in lock down during a crisis. 1mo
mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures in the book they say phones should go in a lock box at school for the day - so that would be homeroom - and I guess available for emergencies. The gun problem in the US is a whole other problem some people are resistant to fixing 1mo
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DebbieGrillo
DebbieGrillo
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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This is a MUST read for all parents and educators and everyone who has or works with children of any age. It will open your eyes to what tech companies are doing, knowingly, that harms our children's mental health and development. More importantly, it tells us how to take back our power and mitigate the damage.

CSeydel I‘m reading it now, although it‘s a tough read for someone whose kids are already in their 20s. 1mo
Estherhasredhair Sounds like a great read! I am among the youngest Millennials and I really think I was a pre-ipad kid. Many of my early memories are games I played on the computer and now I have a diagnosable mental disorders. I‘m glad that books and studies like this are being written. Here is hoping that we learn how to integrate the unavoidable tech and mental health. 1mo
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S3V3N
S3V3N
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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Meh. Not anything groundbreaking. Things we‘ve heard before, but I guess I believe the major problem starts at home. Parents not parenting anymore.

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Lizwarnerpdx
Lizwarnerpdx
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
Mehso-so

Not my favorite genre, but appropriate as I raise a pre-teen. While there was a lot I didn‘t agree with, there was also a lot I did. I definitely like the 4 foundational reforms: no smartphone before high school, no social media before 16, phone-free schools, more unsupervised play & childhood independence.

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Amandakay
Amandakay
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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Very interesting! I love the idea of play based childhood and free range children!

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mjtwo
mjtwo
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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4-6 Jun 24 (audiobook)
Definitely a case of preaching to the converted, but I think this book is so important for parents and older adolescents to read/listen to and consider the impact of a screen based, over-protected childhood. Even my 8 year old found the bits she overheard quite interesting. Of course, she is a little disappointed that she won‘t be getting an iPhone until she is 16. If I had my time again, neither would her teenaged sister.

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Floresj
Floresj
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt
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Not too preachy (though I completely agree with a ban of phones in schools and a focus of developing independence as a parent), well researched, and easy to read. I really like the parallel points- physical independence opportunities for kids and online limits. As a teacher, I wished for a chapter of the crazy helicoptering parents have for their children in school and the ramifications of that behavior on their children‘s development as well.

Tamra As a parent of teens, I‘d love to see a ban of cell phones during the school day. Our district is set to issue a new policy for next year. 🤞🏾 The middle school has a locker policy which has worked well, so I don‘t know why the same hasn‘t been enforced at the high school. 5mo
youneverarrived I‘m really looking forward to reading this! 5mo
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