Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation is, simply put, one of the most important and vital works of nonfiction I've read, and—quite possibly—the most influential book on my wife and I's parenting style and approach to technology.
The Anxious Generation is bombshell after bombshell detonating all of our preconceived assumptions about social media, Gen Z, parenting, "safetyism," mobile phones, childhood, education, and mental health. You've probably long suspected some of Haidt's observations and conclusions, but to see them put to words—and backed by heaps and heaps of research, neuroscience, philosophy, and spiritual musings—is to have your assumptions about what we consider "normal" rocked to its very core.
I'm so thankful I read this book prior to the birth of my daughter. This is a book I want to put into the hands of every parent, want-to-be parent, teacher, politician, tech CEO, or anyone who works/engages with children and/or cares about the collective mental health of our country. I firmly believe that if enough people—especially parents of young children—read this book, it could change the trajectory of our nation's approach to technology and childhood.
In short, Haidt's argument boils down to one salient point: We've overprotected our children from the real world, and underprotected them from the virtual world.. He advocates for a return to the "play-based childhood," and points the transition to the "phone-based childhood" as the primary driver of a significant increase in anxiety, depression, and self-harm among teenagers—especially teenage girls. Additionally, because of culture's perpetual fear-based approach to child-rearing, we've left our kids woefully unprepared for the pressures of the "real world"—and points to evidence of the startling number of Gen Zers and younger Millennials who appears trapped in a state of perpetual young adulthood.
The best aspect of The Anxious Generation is how easy it would've been for Haidt to just document a series of social ills and offer a diagnosis. But the back half of this book is full of extremely practical steps, application points, and "rules" for ensuring your children don't have their neurobiology hacked by tech companies who only want to monopolize their attention—mental health consequences be damned. And, even though the harms hone in on Gen Z and younger Millennials, I find myself often convicted of my own habitual phone use throughout the course of this book and I realize even I didn't escape unscathed.
Read this book. Buy a hard copy and highlight it. I want to give a copy to all of my friends, young parents, and teachers. And not just because I want to discuss this book—but, because as Haidt points out over and over again, this is a cultural issue that requires mass collective action in order to change. So, the more people who read this book and are startled awake by its findings, then the easier it'll be to implement the changes Haidt recommends.
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Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Penguin Press.Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.The Great Rewiring is a phenomenon Haidt attributes to the first generation (Gen Z) to likely grow up with a smartphone combined with parenting shifts toward "overprotecting children and restricting their autonomy in the real world." Haidt asserted, "By designing a firehose of addictive content. . . . and by displacing physical play and in-person socializing," social media "rewired childhood and changed human development on an almost unimaginable scale." The amount of time children spend on their phone contributes to social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction. Haidt presents arguments supported by research for why girls' and boys' anxieties are increasing, and mental health is decreasing. Research shows that girls' social lives moved toward social media while boys immersed themselves in video games and hardcore pornography. Haidt found, "social media harms girls more than boys. . . boys are at greater risk than girls for 'failure to launch'." Research also shows that "social media use is a cause, not just a correlate of anxiety and depression." The book's four parts walks the reader through Haidt's arguments: statistics about children's mental health, decline of the play-based childhood and repercussions, the rise of the phone-based childhood including how it affects girls and boys differently, and practical suggestions for government, school, and parental collective action.My brothers and I grew up able to run around the neighborhood and play. It wasn't that we ran amok (ha ha) but I don't recall a great deal of oversight or rules about our play and exploration of the neighborhood. This idea of parenting shifts in response to stranger danger type threats wherein children retreated indoors with a higher level of parental supervision is something new for me. Something I read before but really sunk in with Haidt's presentation was how the reduction of play occurred around the same time that children were exposed to the Internet and then cell phone technology. A retreat inside meant the use of technology to garner children's attention and eventually access to smart phones with free, 24/7 accessibility including unlimited access to social media. Parents and teachers should read this book. It's not an easy read, rather sobering in its effect but Haidt offers strategies suggestive of ways forward. This book would also be good for those interested in technology and human development, mental health, gender studies, and public policies.
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M. A. Mus
Excelente libro con información documentada de las consecuencias del smartphone y las redes
2024年8月22日在墨西哥发布评论
