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A review by cclift1114
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
While I think most people intuitively know a lot of the information that Haidt sets forth in this book, it is nice to have the data to back it up. I appreciate that he doesn’t just lay out the problems with phones and social media and video games for children and teenagers, but also lists a variety of different solutions at different levels that could help negate some of the negative effects that we are currently seeing. I also appreciated the structure of the book, with him clearly outlining what was going to be discussed and summoning up the most important points of each chapter at the end of it. I hope that parents, schools, and communities will work to implement some of the changes that he has proposed here.