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4. The High Cost of a Phone-Based Childhood
Gen Z kids are part of a generation of guinea pigs.
“It’s as though we sent Gen Z to grow up on Mars when we gave them smartphones in the early 2010s in the largest uncontrolled experiment humanity has ever performed on its own children,” Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, writes in “The Anxious Generation: How... See more
theatlanticinstagram.comWe think social media has changed childhood and adolescence for the worse, so much so that it constitutes a “great rewiring of childhood.” Beginning in the 1990s, a childhood based heavily on outdoor play began to fade away and was replaced by a phone-based childhood in the early 2010s, when teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones.
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... See moreEli George • Do the Kids Think They’re Alright?
In #TheAnxiousGeneration I focused on kids’ and teens’ mental health. However, since writing the book, I’ve come to realize that the destruction of #attention is an even worse, long-term effect of excessive or premature touch-screen time.
I’m afraid this is a generation-defining loss of human potential, which will have... See more
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