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Jonathan Haidt: Kids Should Put Down the Phones and Take More Risks

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Two psychologists are at war over children and phones. Which one is right?

Both Peter Gray and Jonathan Haidt believe that children are over-supervised in childhood. But they differ on phones ...
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Gen Z’s brains are ‘growing around their phones’ the way a tree warps around a tombstone, ‘Anxious Generation’ author warns

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jonathan Haidt in October 2025. A global public health emergency driven by the swift transition from a play-based to a phone-based ...
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Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?

“Social animals are smart animals,” the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explained in his 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis. Once humans developed technologies like writing and printing, Haidt ...
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Jonathan Haidt Rebrands the ‘Anxious Generation’ in a Thoughtful & Fun Way for Tweens

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Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, 400 pages, $30 Jonathan Haidt opens The Anxious Generation with ...
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How cell phones are killing our kids, and what we can do about it

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Social psychologist Jonathan ...
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One Year After ‘The Anxious Generation,’ Moms Are Driving a Movement. There’s Still Work to Do

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. When my oldest son was 10, my husband and I gave in and gave ...
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‘Anxious Generation’ author lays out perils of social media – and offers a way to a more civil future

Speaking to a packed crowd at Battell Chapel on Wednesday, the social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt ’85 invoked the biblical tale of the tower of Babel as a metaphor for the harms caused by ...
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Have smartphones created an ‘anxious generation’? Jonathan Haidt sounds the alarm

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation delivers an urgent call for action. Haidt argues that the evidence is in. Teenagers’ widespread use of smartphones is causing a ...
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Jonathan Haidt: Kids Should Put Down the Phones and Take More Risks

When I was a kid, childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt's bestselling book, The Anxious ...