The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
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
jonathanhaidtinstagram.comWhen it was carried into schools in the early 2010s, on smartphones in students’ pockets, it quickly changed the culture for everyone. (Communication networks rapidly become more powerful as they grow.[16]) Students talked to each other less between classes, at recess, and at lunch, because they began to spend much of that time checking their phone
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In sum, our efforts to find and elicit the views of Gen Z largely confirm our initial concerns while also suggesting additional avenues for investigation. The kids are not alright, and the combination of smartphones and social media is a major reason why