Lisa’s Reviews > The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness > Status Update

Animal learning is the wearing smooth of a path in the brain, not the decisions of a rational consciousness. ~Edward Thorndike

It may be worse than I thought it would be. It probably isn’t productive of healthy to wallow in what might have been but here we are. I am grateful for the Atonement that can makeup for my many shortcomings. I did get some things right but I could have done so much better with my teens

I’m already nervous about reading this book. I wish I could turn back time and do a better job with my own children. I fear that looking back, I will cringe at my own ignorance. Hopefully, instinctively, I managed to somehow protect them from some of the effects of technology on their generation. I’m sure I didn’t catch all the opportunities. For this I hope they know how deeply sorry I am.