The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

This included social media companies, which inflicted their greatest damage on girls, and video game companies and pornography sites, which sank their hooks deepest into boys.[4]

It requires children under 13 to get parental consent before they can sign a contract with a company

iPhone in 2007,

2009 by the arrival of the “like” and “retweet”

front-facing cameras (2010)

My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.

embodied,

synchronous,

one-to-one or one-to-several communication,

high bar for entry and exit,

They are disembodied,

asynchronous,

one-to-many communications,

low bar for entry and exit,

No smartphones before high school.

No social media before 16.

Phone-free schools.

Far more unsupervised play and childhood independence.

Marcus Aurelius’s advice to himself, in the second century CE: Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.[20]

She notes that by 2009, “for the first time in American history, the balance of the workforce tipped toward women, who continue to occupy around half of the nation’s jobs.”[8]

Women earned 59% of bachelor’s degrees, while men earned just 41%.[9]

Not in Education, Employment, or Training.

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