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How The Great Rewiring Of Childhood Impacted Everything – And What We Can Do About It

Jonathan Haidt wrote The Anxious Generation with a firm belief that the challenges confronting our children and our families are solvable. Addressing these challenges requires understanding the traps we have fallen into, so we can see the escape routes.

The main escape routes are four new norms: delay smartphones until high school, delay social media until 16, phone-free schools, and more independence and play in the real world. The solutions are simple, but the work is hard. It’ll be easier if we act together.

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Jonathan gets invited to speak at conferences, schools, and parent groups all the time, and he can’t always make it, so he made this video. In this talk, Jon shares the research that underpins the book alongside inspiration and concrete plans, so that school leaders, parents, and all of us can facilitate change in our families, schools, and communities.

The Anxious Generation is all about collective action. We encourage you to watch this talk with a friend, as a group of parents, or as a group of educators, and use it as a jumping-off point for conversations about how you can implement these solutions together. If you watch it alone, we hope you’ll forward it onto a friend.

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