The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Between 2010 and 2015 rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm among adolescents rose sharply in several countries at once. Haidt's argument is that two things happened simultaneously: play-based childhood was replaced by phone-based childhood, and parents became simultaneously overprotective in the real world and underprotective online.

He works through the evidence on smartphones and social media, why the effects are larger for girls, the loss of unsupervised play and what it was doing developmentally, and the collective action problem that makes individual restriction so hard. His four reforms are specific: no smartphones before high school, no social media before sixteen, phone-free schools, and far more independence offline.

A number one bestseller that has driven school phone bans in several countries.

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