A review by theseasoul
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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As a Gen Z reader, I found this incredibly insightful, horrifying, and unsurprising. I already recommended it to a teacher friend of mine who has been overwhelmed by the surge of phone use in school and what it’s doing to kids’ brains and learning capacities. This is not the first book I’ve read that deals with this topic, and it’s always interesting to gain more insight into how screens & social media are moulding children’s & teens’ brains as they did my own.  As this is coming from a secular author there were certain things I didn’t agree with, but I thought most of his ideas for taking action were reasonable and doable. I enjoy books that clarify things with graphs and visuals, and this was one of those. I think it’s great that this book is reaching a wide audience at the moment, as awareness is key in the battle against screen-induced brain-rot!