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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. This disruption includes social anxiety, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction. Alarmed by the rates of anxiety and depression in adolescents, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote The Anxious Generation. The book explores these growing phenomena and attributes them to the transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. This means delaying children’s access to smartphones until high school and social media platforms until 16. Schools need to go phone-free. Children and adolescents need more opportunities for independence, free play, and responsibility. Replace screen time with real-world experiences involving friends and independent activity, so that limits on devices don’t feel like deprivation but the opening up of a world of o

The Anxious Generation — from a book to a movement Skip to Main Content Kids need us to be technoskeptical. Watch Jon Haidt’s new TED Talk The Anxious Generation Movement Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation sparked a global conversation that grew into TAG, a movement advancing four new norms to rewire childhood. Take Action Everyone has a role to play in ending the phone-based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world. Pick yours and let’s get moving. I’m a choose your role The Four Norms The Four Norms to Roll Back the Phone-Based Childhood 1 No smartphones before h

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