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The Anxious Generation
- How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide risen so sharply, more than doubling in many cases?
In this book, Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers.
Haidt delves into the latest psychological and biological research to show how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared while time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health. This profound shift took place against a backdrop of diminishing childhood freedom, as parents over-supervised every aspect of their children’s lives offline, depriving them of the experiences they most need to become strong and self-governing adults.
The Anxious Generation reveals the fundamental ways in which this shift from free-play to smartphones disrupts development – from sleep deprivation to addiction – with separate in-depth analyses of the impact on girls and boys. Grounded in ancient wisdom and packed full of cutting-edge science, this eye-opening book is a life raft and a powerful call-to-arms, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves.
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- Ian Day
- 29-05-24
Depth of research
Because it spoke to so many different interested parties repetition was an issue
Nonetheless a valuable resource for parents, teachers legislators and even grandsds
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- Sarah Gosney-Davies
- 23-07-24
Every person on earth should read this book.
I cannot stop reccomending this book. Integral reading, not only for parents and teachers, but for all of us trying to navigate the brave new world. Highly informative, engaging and terrifying.
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- Peter B
- 24-06-24
A must read for every parent
The evidence and authority to prove what we have all suspected regarding smartphones, social media and our kids
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- Anonymous User
- 10-09-24
The best insight into the failed social media experiment you will ever read
I thought I was becoming a grumpy old man. Now I can crystalise why. The move from play based childhood to phone based childhood on the back of the epidemic of Safetyism is as insidious as it is unnatural. Read the book and you will find out for yourselves.
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- LYNDSEY TEMING-AMOAKO
- 17-04-24
Insightful, informative and inspirational.
This subject is very close to my heart and was compelled to consume this book after joining the Smartphone Free Childhood movement and seeing Jonathan on a webinar with its co-founders. I love the care and depth gone into the research and writing of this book and found it beyond reassuring, as I am a parent of two primary school aged children and decided long ago that they would not be getting smartphones until after their GCSEs! I highly recommend this book to all parents, teachers and teens who care about the cognitive and social development of children to read/listen to this book. For the "congregation", the preaching is good! For the sceptics, the preaching has enough legs to convert. I would have given the voiceover a five, but there were a few edits which were re-recorded which I found a tad distracting.
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- Steven C Gray
- 20-04-24
Brilliant, lucid and wise
Insights and clarity on the profoundly different experience of growing up now, and what we can do about it
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- Jacqueline Shoen
- 27-06-24
Direct action to change the future of our kids
This book was absolutely brilliant. I’m a parent of two young kids and am deeply concerned for their future as tech & social media users. The author addresses these concerns and makes a sound argument as to why I should be concerned AND most importantly what to do about it. I am so grateful for all the efforts this writer, parent and social psychologist has made towards a better future for our children and society as a whole. It’s an essential read for all parents of young and pre-teen children!
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- byron
- 02-07-24
Teen and adults beware Facebook
Listening to this to help me understand what is going on with my 14 year old son. Packed with information and so compelling on the dangers of having a screen based upbringing. Worth every person time
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- Lena
- 15-07-24
Enlightened about issues on mental health
The book offers a really good view on phone based childhood and what it is doing to our children’s mental health. It offers solution and advice and it is not condescending in any way, which most parents/teachers will appreciate. Definitely a must-listen/read.
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- Gerry
- 17-04-24
Essential reading
I hope this book comes to be seen as one of the most important books of the decade. We all need to take this in, ask hard questions of ourselves, and push for appropriate action. Everyone should read this but especially parents. I am far from a luddite - 10+ years in tech including the last 5 in AI... Even for those of us devoting our lives to the positive impact technology can make, this book is incredibly difficult to argue with. Stop reading reviews and buy it.
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